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