The Empty City

the outline of the city the sheerness of its height I thought that I was kidding when I said - I love this sight I love this skyline towers rising from the trees white bars on a blue graph not exactly flapping in the breeze cast upon a great white plaza filtered down through architects' maps a stand of glassy super-structures rising from the sprawling city flats streaming to the blue sea gleaming like beluga reduced to teeming atoms and shimmering in the heat hope you have your camera hope you have some paper because if no one gets this down then it's gone forever this is the elevator