Urban Optimum

For each in the city there is a hum and a beat

To which routines and transitions freely repeat.

The flow and the ebb, with less take and more give,

Is the meter of living for work and working to live.

A calm, easy cadence connects home with labors.

No sour note commute nor dead malls for neighbors.

Uses, mixed local and small, supply points of life.

To them walk, pedal or twitter ­— modal options are rife.

Among other urban livability measures

Are ample green features and amenity pleasures.

Add a multi-cultural chorus, the polyrthmic part,

With civility and inclusion to give place a heart.