RedBubble The City

The Bright light reveals the droopy red eyes, the body moves in it’s mechanical routine to yet again board the cold steel of the silver rattle snake to the place we look high above to see the t…

It is a city that does sleep. Well, naps anyway. By six pm on weekdays the downtown traffic lights blink amber and crimson at the few cars edging out of town.

We’re dumping food from our sh…

We walk among a world
were no one see’s the tragities that are among us
a little boy has lost his father
to a drive by shoting
a mother has sold her daughter to prostitution
because that w…

My heart thrives under city lights,
My dreams are born on city nights,
I am a child of the golden street lamps,
I am a child of the city.

When I see the midnight people, walking by,
Or t…

People never look up at the windows.

They really should.

"Mother, tell me stories of when the sky was black, laced with diamonds that shined forever."

That was long ago when the sky was untouched by light. A time I loved that lives no more.

Now…

Riding home on the Northern Line feelin hot and sweaty,
no air to spare, people are gettin petty.

i.ll take you home and make you my own..

In this world we bring our kids
This world of constant heaving
Life is just a series of bids
What sort of world are we leaving?

The city… a gaping wound,
A cancer left raw and bleeding,
On the surface of a once soft and supple,
Now parched and worn out Epedermis of Life.

Some would say a disaster…
Others a m…

“I kill all you bitches!”
A general, silent wave of panic swept over the train car. Instantly, twenty people gasped. All were trapped and did nothing.

It started out just like any other day, sun rising, spreading it’s warmth as it progressed over the landscape. Nothing new there just another day but strangely it had a presence about it as tho…

I awakened. The concrete felt hard against my back. I had forgotten my keys and had spent the night on the doorstep. I have never been outside in the city this early and the sun was just beginn…

Moving along the paths of concrete,
Step by step closer to my destination,
Looking straight ahead without eye contact,
Knowing I will hear from a friend quicker,
From the flip of a cell pho…

Fields in silver darkness, early morning
All asleep, even crickets in peace yawning…

The city of tomorrow will wear inequality as a crown.
The city of tomorrow will drown vagrants in litter.
The city of tomorrow will cackle as it burns.

When houses slumber,
When children dream,
When parents hope,
And lovers seams
Combine;
I wonder the gloomiest streets,
I ponder and avoid the light.