#161 - metropolis

11.6.20

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metropolis

the city

 untune-able

whim gathering

but life is larger

round we go

medley of moods

numb encounters

someone is drilling

above me, below

the tunnel in its train

this least between worlds

the city runs over the page

out of time

runs up a graph to strike

music in the waters

lightning strikes twice

by accident

I am

you too

arrows which and every way

wonder in each wish

someone decided

so much of the city unsaid

a now show

here and tell

nothing forever reminds us

cars parked underwater dreaming

bush gully betweening

and I hear the song

it is far winged

call country

dark secrets broaden the scope

the city

unknown to itself

under hours

sits up on haunches to bay

so it’s ours

wouldn’t you?

dumb luck

and the ice is slow

a river rises over

here is thunder too

gods’ laughter over the city

larger than lives

the clock of this

antics of a heap we see

all from eternity’s squint eye

three taps of the baton

we’re in the illusion

busy with, breathless

writing out lines

and repeat after me

is racing itself to the finish and bitter

everything will be improved

come back in the hundred

the thousand years

see

a forest here shining

where the city should be