DAILY PHOTO: Marunji Hills, Hinjawadi

Everything City [Free Verse]

Everything is happening 
   somewhere in that city.

Blocks of block buildings
   broken into smaller blocks,
    in turn into smaller ones.

Those blocks -- rooms --
    are the city's unit of interest.

So many rooms,
    so much potential for the:
        -nefarious,
        -virtuous,
        -ill-advised,
        -hideous,
        -hopeful,
        -hilarious...

Someone is hanging 
   from a rafter,
   waiting to be found.

Thousands are masturbating.

AI surveys the porn they surf,
    making new genres in real time
    based on unfulfilled search terms...

In one room, a scientist
    figured out a cure for cancer
    in a burst of inspiration,
    but by the time she'd found a pen,
    she'd lost it -- no trace remaining.

    She then convinced herself
         she'd never really had it...

         but she had. 

Everything that can happen 
   has happened,
   will happen,
   and is happening
   in the city. 

DAILY PHOTO: Infinite City

Taken in Hinjawadi [North Pune] on March 24, 2023

DAILY PHOTO: Panónska cesta w/ Most SNP [UFO Bridge], Bratislava

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DAILY PHOTO: Chandni Chowk / Russell Market

DAILY PHOTO: Tűzoltó & Bokréta Streets, Budapest

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Nom de Polis [Blank Verse]

This town has known many a name
 of ancient, medieval, and modern kind.
It's known more slurs than names, by far,
 and yet this people place remains. 

DAILY PHOTO: Lusaka City Center

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DAILY PHOTO: Clouds Over Nairobi

Nairobi skyline taken from Uhuru Park in May of 2017.

Japan Limerick

There was a rich businessman from Japan
 who'd always wanted to be his country's Batman.
  But his civil city
   was not Gotham-gritty,
 and the cape made him look like a madman.