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Urban Irony

1/16/2015

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What is the city

But exponential irony

Contrasts that conflict

Amidst multitudes of space(s)


On a skyline walkway

Leading to a hub

I veer away from an uncertain Chugger

Charity mugging with clipboards, passion, and shtick

Has become a growth industry in a city of struggles


From an elevated parking fortress

Aggressive barked commands below

Peeking reveals a river of people

Handicapped with boxing gloves

A rainbow stream of perspiring participants

Dodge cars, round a tree, sprinting away from their drill sergeant and back to doof studio


In the pedestrian mall of Murray st

Buskers leak out of summer days

Self conducting didge player

Chalk artist drawing war on the asphalt

Guitar singers clumped too close for anyone to be happy

And a golden statue sitting complacently, with a guitar, listening to the radio, while small children stare


By the train station a silent teenager

Sits silently with a homeless sign

Across from her chat a man in a suit

A lady in a sunflower yellow dress

With their sign saying

What does the bible really teach?



Is it city life to self-alienate from irony

It becomes your invisible stain

visible only to visitors

ephemeral views of liminal truth
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