in the city by James Morehead
July 30, 2011
in the city
i woke up in the city its streets glistening from midnight rain its sirens sleeping after moonlit races and a street sweeper churning past padlocked bikes around a lone reveler stumbling from a night club past two i woke up in the city to piercing alarms of bedside neighbors and pacing heels clicking to and fro on kitchen tiles and hardwood floors above my soot stained window view i woke up in the city confused at first by neon light with the early sun rising past the flickering glow and silver tower's shadow on town homes row by row awash in white noise a streetcar passing through i woke up in the city among unknown millions give or take in numbered streets and forgotten alleys where wonders splendor worries magnificent blend in greys discarded among the unknown
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I think I could really do a nice drawing for this poem. Something with city lights, the sunrise maybe 🙂