James Laughlin

Above the City

You know our office on the 18th  
floor of the Salmon Tower looks  
     right out on the
 
Empire State and it just happened  
we were there finishing up some  
     late invoices on
 
a new book that Saturday morning  
when a bomber roared through the  
     mist and crashed
 
flames poured from the windows  
into the drifting clouds and sirens  
     screamed down in
 
the streets below it was unearthly  
but you know the strangest thing  
     we realized that
 
none of us were much surprised be–
cause we’d always known that those  
     two paragons of
 
progress sooner or later would per–
form before our eyes this demon–
     stration of their
     true relationship.
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