Photo: Todd Asher. Bloomberg Tower.
Yes, we have made them…
the glass towers, the stone monuments
to every principle we have ever betrayed
a billion messages rising
invisibly…
what we choose
to ignore
has chosen us
the glass towers, the billions—
how they in turn
have made –
are making
us
their shadows
growing new powers
the planet turning
on its seasons
reaching hand to outstretched hand
raising
one another from our knees
taking up again the burden
the terrible lightness of freedom
Driving through the Holland Tunnel on …
…the way to Occupy Wall Street for every
tile worker’s hand the trowel he held
32 million tiles in the ceiling
2.9 million on the walls
set
one
by
one
how many laid by one man in an hour
a day counting
them in his sleep beside his wife
in a walk-up in Bayonne
14 workers died building that tunnel…
not one of them
named Holland
We hear them... ...the machines
of power, the Mayors don their armor
in Portland, St. Louis, Oakland, New York…
Darth Vaders by the
score
one!
for the 1%
can't they hear ?
the hour glass -- the sand
beneath the pillars
totter
to plastic pail drums --
old Joshua's trumpets
sound
the living & the dead parade
surround
a thousand City Halls!
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