reconstructing the system, and the benefits of staying put.

the apartment building, the home planet,

holds its occupants by gravity and age, as common

and rare as any carbon and hydrogen based, rectangular-

wrapped, interior-minded structure is capable of being.

inside, remarkable items are strewn over larger items,

and others needed for unique room-to-room requirements,

make up the environment for the common good of its people.

the atmosphere is breathable, such as it is with nitrogen and oxygen.

on the outside, the planet, designated by the "Fall River Geophysical Society"

as 140-503-EL, everything seems well established by the passage of time.

high-standing leafy structures, and low-lying greeny counterparts,

as well as wide planks of water dot the outside's natural order.

some narrower strains in water move from one place to another, while

the largest bodies of water, salted by eons of big landlocked rocks,

are often turbulent, very deep in the middle, and humanly uninhabitable.

outside, beyond the local group, lay the dark mysteries of everything else,

like Somerset, and Wyoming.

in closing, there is no requirement against staying put, but as a cautionary note,

devil-may-care wayfarers venturing beyond the edge of the planet will fall

from the precipice into the realm of dragons and serpents. 

(“greeny” is the brainchild of William Carlos Williams

to describe the color of the asphodel flower.)