Saturday, August 1, 2009

Metropolitan.

The order of this one is kinda nonsensical; it doesn't really have a pattern or scheme of any kind, so don't try looking for one.

The roads
Like so many coursing fibers
Contracting veins
All converging towards one
Pulsating heart
Of life and bustling activity
And the cars
so many cells hurtling
Towards their ultimate destination
Flashing lights both hinder and guide
Each cell
Isolated
By their thick steel walls
Determined only upon
Arrival.
The arteries clog
Resulting in rage
And the steady death
Of the incensed cells.

The city is a living creature

Shuddering breaths of gasoline and electricity
Exhaling steam and exhaust
It neither sleeps nor wakes
But lives in an eternal sigh.
Streetlights burn dully
Feeble nerves giving direction
To an unresponsive body.

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