Contributor's contribution: sweeping snow
The benefits and necessities, both personal and communal, of keeping your wintry path clear.
M.E. Grey is a Brussels-based poet who humbly suggests, for those reading this on a mobile device or otherwise small screen, to go horizontal.
snow lies white snow lies calm * family safety demands it be removed from the front steps no ice must be allowed to form there and the pavement in front of the house you also sweep reduce the risk of personal liability for the accidents of passersby sweeping the snow raises the heartrate gets you warm delivers small cardiovascular and metabolic benefits as part of an active lifestyle you like the look of the snow but together these self interests easily prevail * you like the look of the snow but wider interests easily prevail among the fragile falls precipitate deaths or if not death then long uncertain costly rehabilitation and much sadness among the robust a broken bone is inconvenient reduces productivity and as a contributor to public finances a user of public services you hold a stake in averting these outcomes your aesthetic preference or better the romance the peace of the snow is no adequate justification for leaving it undisturbed and if you feel the need you may gently warm this brittle language of policy call it action for the common good * so you sweep the snow but even so resist the call of the gutter so you sweep to a careful pile so you sweep in such a way the snow may glisten a bright while longer give child inside a cause for smile responsible citizen holy fool
