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I’m too scared to sleep,

It’s too late,

I don’t know how long I have left.

In apartments forgotten by time, all lights were lit

Until utility bills—electricity, gas, maintenance—became too expensive,

Only love was made,

Nothing more, nothing less than love.

Now we heal by placing leaves over our eyes,

Becoming superheroes,

Some want to save us,

But there’s nothing left to save here,

On earth.

All people leave us, taking with them even the last

Ellipses…

City, why do you let me rage at the gates of your walls?

Why do you abandon me on side streets?

Where do you hide when I open my eyes and poverty draws me in?

Where do you hide when I offer you surrounding tears?

City, the pride, the arrogance, and the virtues of the commoners do not satisfy me,

City, you abandon me in my thoughts,

You hide in the dark thoughts of others,

You shy away from the beautiful women who smile at me between stations,

I notice them, I admire them, I dissociate reality.

Do not shy away, old city, showing your teeth,

Do not protect me, do not try to absorb me into the broth cooked up by gangsters,

They are smeared with the blood of our ancestors, of your homeland,

A city smoked out by false glory.

We are your outcasts,

Your wandering children,

At your bedside our veins are plunged into your soil,

Our bones support your profitable corporations,

Our brains dissected and squeezed by your machinery,

Using selective methods to satisfy immediate and forbidden pleasures through false gratuity,

Leave me with your promotions,

I have not left you,

I do not trust you,

Good to see you again,

I needed you to live inside you,

To offer in exchange all that I have received

From every person born in your city.