Sleeping City Monster

Yawn of concrete teeth and asphalt tongue The city, a sleeping monster begins to wake It wails sirens Dark sound screeching like jammed on brakes Belches smog and petrol, refuse and rot While people run about on its skin Like fleas on a dog Why do we live like this Why don’t we jump before…

Ghost city

Faded city, silent city buildings loom eerie, white on grey, shadow people pass, faceless, noiseless rushing nowhere in such a hurry there, and then gone traffic is mere wisps of movement blurs of vacant motion I can’t quite hear I can’t quite see nothing comes into focus nothing is clear no colour, no life only…