permanent occupation

          and yet we
          expected
          everything                              radiant           names
          to explode                              carving the 
                                                         shape           o                    f           

into                     sinister          f  i  r  e  w  o  r  k  s
                                                                                          highways
                              rushing          t  o  w  a  r  d 

                         as we crossed the          thres          h  o  l  d
                              into lakes of sewage          in the streets

                                        n  o          p  a  s  a  r  a  n

          enter a desolate world
                    of skeletal          b  u  i  l  d  i  n  g  s          weeping
                    p  o  w  e  r  l  i  n  e  s

cathedrals of concrete
converge into a          p  l  e  x  u  s
of nerves                    connecting the eye to          the land
                                                                                name            s
                    of cities           are epithets for          the things
                    we forgot as                              we crossed the

          t  h  r  e  s  h  o  l  d          of the           cities
                                                                                grew out of
                                                                                primitive
                                                                                accumulation

                                                  leave among          r  u  i  n  s