Availment
1.
The Synonym Finder tells me that
“avail”means: profit,
benefit, help, serve
2.
But also: take advantage of,
exploit, and the sinister
“turn to account”
3.
Once a thing is spent,
it is done for.
An irrevocable trade
4.
Consider an ad for land
“Rarely does a property like this one
become available”
5.
Rending: to split or tear apart, or in pieces
to remove from a place by violence
Reave and sunder
6.
Now, consider a bulldozer,
a falsely-fallowed field
seeds not sown
7.
This undoing
whose professional name is “progress”
* The Synonym Finder (Rodale Press, Inc, 1978, Warner Books Edition)





“It’s like I planted a flower smack dab in the middle of a development” LMC