City
Denounced in the sunlight
the collective glass glitter cold unrepentant
only the homeless meander divest
only gutter and litter offer solace
on the graffiti spent a park bench
there is no other place to rest
Between tiles and floors and abandoned doors
implacable confrontation with welcome arms
only the comfort of training shoes
only a collective impersonal
ignores the stench of traffic fumes
and still the children breath it in
Amidst the festoon in colour glorious of plenty
begs the transient hand of a last short lived
a little compassion pleaded on the pavement
hunger scratched at piteous attempt
and belittled beneath the scorn
hidden behind a sunglass reflection
Interminable parties illusion of community
compressed and stacked in repetition
every fashionable uniform of diversity
marches the streets pacing homogeneous
stare blank
a multitude of nothing else to think about
Edifice scraped and scratched through soul
no more purpose other than the skin deep
surrogate submission of life
the paltry excuse of cement
around its entrapment weaves
the delusions of social conformities
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