time skyline, strange
pulsing apparitions—
be they, at length,
ancient stars, or some
arcane technologies—
display
the same famous
vicissitudes of nature
by bestowing their
miracles, then
taking them away;
while the three million
overused denizens
who behold them
are filled with neither
courage, nor
dissatisfaction—
but rather,
that frank, urban kind
of routine wonder
whose very weakness
is its strength.
