Living City

The city is dancing

A devil’s dance
Its flickering lights
Shake you
Throw you up

Blocks are transparent
With methane
Air is heavy, smelly as nudity
Every obsolete brand is
Beaming on signboards

Talking boxes
Govern the city
Marketing hypos
Inject needs
Into people in comatose

Sriya Kumarasinghe
18/01/2010