Gates rising into the sky
Of flowing trains
Hour-thief
Eyes for limited time

Silken moment
Tender being
Lips spread
In the windowless house

Trains keep streaming past
The shaken tree
22 times
The gates shine

Eyes play songs
Hours
Eyes
Cool clinking

Lips spread
In the tempo of wings
Hall 12
Massive, solid stones

Scorched soil
Became air
Air blew into the eyes

The child looked at the stars
Fire floated there
On the shore of the moon

The child became a mirror
Mysterious
A doppelgänger

Riddles stand on the mirror
Seen only at night
If you want to find something

You have changed
Light grew from your eyes
Your voice flew to the sky

A little shadow
Fata Morgana
Diamond rain

The deep truth lies in
The heart of a human
At the cry of birth, it escapes

A lifetime long, the human searches
For their truth
The search shapes their life

The search passes by avenues
Of corridors and dreams
Into the hall of truth

There dwell angels in walls
Their spirits shape the hall
The hall produces memories

Memories thirst for truth
Today, a colossus spoke in the hall
From the heart of truth

May a change take place
In the lives of young humans
A few birth cries away

8:38 AM
People erase mistakes
Dogs barking on the horizon

Time races
No mistakes allowed
17 towers

12:38 AM
Legal gray zones
Tax carousel

Time is pressing
Lion-faced players
AIs know the sound of breath

4:38 PM
In the night-colored Escalade
Heading toward concrete

Nasir crouched in a launch pit of scars
Eat, drink, sleep, and dress in riches!
Jealousy — let it go

8:38 PM
Streets renamed
New shops in splash-of-gossip colors

12:38 AM
Who’s got the clocks?
Who’s got the time?


4:38 AM
Stay alert for the oppers!
Shabba Ranks knows already

38

It’s so loud
The world a whirlpool
Like a piano in the ghetto
A melody of noise

Everywhere demons build houses
Tearing up streets like skin
I have no skin left
Because a demon ruled me

He drilled into my soul
The soul of the silent ape
Behind the gardens
Far from the light

There the demon reigns
On a throne of gold chains
Cuban Link Necklace
Two Chainz
Don’t come too close!

I sink teeth into skin
The ape howls
The light recedes

The piano in the ghetto—
I play it still

This world is a whirlpool
Demons buying and selling love
A heart for 10,000 dollars, 2 for 5, 10 for 1
Who’ll bid higher?!
Going once, going twice...

Oh my!
Hallelujah
Bathe in this religion
Skin is a garden, and sweet

The light withdrawn
Mongrels barking
Everywhere only whirlpools

Oh yes

But the curtain falls
Because the power of redemption saves the truth
Out of the black wall safe
The truth of every person
Where he is deeply and purely loved

So the demon runs away
Cursing yet retreating
Because the light drives him off
Casts a blanket across the street
The sun rises
The day comes

It’s over

Because you were in the crack of dust
In the floorboards of the old building
Years ago and dreams
You were there

Because you were in the room of the pyramids
In the palace of red metal
Before the memories of children
You came

Because you remained in the park of cool shadows
In the neighborhood of endless houses
Before the puddle of blood
You stayed

Because you stood in the fire of returning home
In the heart of silence
Before the most beautiful and final word
To me

In the icy glow of the skyline
Movers and pigeons
Children singing

An elevator through time
Suits and beggars
Long limousines

In the icy glow of the skyline
Morning dew glitters, fragile
Swallows fly out of the city

Voices and sirens
So we raise our heads
Phone screens shine silently

In the icy glow of the skyline
The ground full of crumbs
No end in sight

Growing and moving on
At the fountain of silence
Shadowed by immortals

In the icy glow of the skyline
A child was born
To write about this place