Building

Like the American sticker on the side of a hard hat

The cultural significance of symbolic similitude

A civic duty to show up and work

The trust put into a blue collar man

Skies are blue and buildings grey

Reflected sky in glass

Clouds are grey

They have been built up, by hands

Hands look like concrete

Eyes that cut through the soft

Eyes that are soft

Souls that are...

Has rhetoric really built this place?

Steel wires connecting lips to facade,

or ideas to action?

Foundations

Scraping the sky

Perspectives are perspectives

(Machines lay vacant

Without a host

Are useless

But that is an idea for another time...)