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SPEEDBOATS, HELICOPTERS & SINGLE ENGINE PLANES

The children are hard at work.
Moving quantities of sand, sending trucks
Down slick spiral slides, or simply
Being stunned by a splash of water
From behind. They're growing, yes,
But more than that they are occupying
This prime real estate. Trying to help them
Can take up all your reason and turn
Your idea of time into a Ferris wheel by the river.
Or not. More to the point,
A group -- six or seven toddlers
Push slide and scoop sand around on a table
And it's futile to distract them
From this work which shares its relation to purpose with art.