Slick city Cut at angles Grimy pavement For mindless shufflers Clattering mufflers

Gutter garbage Bulldozing bikers Reeking sewage Lights changing green yellow red Some drivers look dead

Beeping crosswalks Huge hounds on designer leashes Road construction No one talks, empty bottles on beaches Absent texters like zombies Hipsters wearing Abercrombies

Child wanders without parent Lines at Starbucks Morning Lattes, names out-shouted Jackhammers pecking ancient Concrete Seagulls, pigeons wait for crumbs Day-traders making sums Lives hawked for profits Jagged glass on soffits Trying and failing To keep the wild away

Just another day In any big city

From far away it may impress Close up you can see the mess

Leaves decay instead of detach

Not pretty