3 July 2008

landing approach

physical city your beauty appalls me
you’re the scab after history bleeds
rust and rats in your skirts
comply with eternity

fingered by blind children the
digital city speaks
surfaces
kilometres steel glass limestone

concrete brick and then a rose
like a burst of
pop trivia
makes their sudden fur rise

swivelling from her desk
the executive’s PA
stares
into the heavens

an aircraft
with me
in it
descends