Primordial soup of concrete, metal, and glass fills the surrounding space of this chaotically ordered universe and takes shape as walls, ceilings, floors, staircases, windows, benches, poles, stretches of tarmac.
[…]
Upwards it grows
downwards it burrows
as wires and pipes and metro mole-tunnels.
outwards it swells and scatters
to an infinity infinitely large
until the little human within
finally recognises himself as
an infinity infinitely small.
[…]
— awe before civilisation’s new element:
earth, water, air, fire, aether…
city.
[…]
The ancients built pyramids for egoists; we raise them for thousands of souls to make birds envious, pharaohs dead jealous, and children of tomorrow marvel at our grandeur.
[…]
The city throbs, breathes, digests its tenants, and gently mocks its guests.
[…]
Soon, winds will lift human spores up in the air and disperse them around the city.
[…]
Here, underground lies half of the city, be it rail transport, car parks, or shopping malls going down and down.
