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The city is quiet for once
Asleep
As are you
Gathering strength to go through another day of erosion
Bleached by the sun, walked all over, rain whispering off another layer of skin
Recharging in the limbo of existence
The death echo of slumber

The city sticks up from the ground like splinters from a piece of broken wood
Stuffed with right angles found nowhere in nature
When you are awake you will also be perpendicular to the ground

The downtown core is like a bar graph of money
With the tallest buildings at the center
Falling off to the shortest at the edges

This temporary construction
Not as temporary as you
Housed in
This mashed-together porous bag of organs
Slithering protein and fat clotheslined off of bones
Housed in
This rearrangement of rocks and wood
Look how elaborate these colonies are now
Look how brief humans are
Compared to their creations
From skyscrapers
To yogurt containers
While the actual caves we came from look on
Eternal in comparison

But for now, your brief lives sleep

You and the city
Drool on the pillow
Theseus shipping through time
Dreaming
Of what you used to be
And what you will become

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