Lithospheres

"Night cities have no walls and the streets are hectic like electric sewers where raucous music and phosphorescent fashions are steady as a wave or a pulse that must start somewhere, so someone is dancing and they are dancing on enormous drums in caves where the air is the colour of nothing like twilight and white plumes of vapour wriggle out of deep cracks in the shiny black rock and everyone has very thin skin becuase of hiding here for so long, dancing in the dark with drums, their timing so perfect and singing so sweetly, looking almost like ghosts but they can't see me at all."