<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=431153" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Downtown</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Architectural wonders built with lots of power and expertise<br>Tower above a tamed river touching the clouds with ease<br>Precise vertical constructions planned by structural engineers<br>Impressive connotations that have to withstand many years<br>The river once wild and free now stumbles in its concrete bed<br>Slowly pushes polluted water void of health and almost dead</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Much wealth and progress is sheltered in reinforced concrete <br>And in the sunlight glass fronts sparkle high above the street<br>Elevators spit out people mostly dressed in dark suits and ties<br>While marble tiled hallways swallow footsteps without chastise<br>Bistro and deli restaurants offer sophisticated menues until five<br>Thereafter the streets change abruptly and new inhabitants arrive</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Void of motions parking lots and garages are now empty and dark<br>The night settled in with patrol cars lining the outskirts of the park<br>A man on the corner quotes poetry to his bottle hidden in a bag<br>And empty city buses park in the terminal under the national flag<br>The lost and forgotten own the sidewalks during the hours of doom<br>Some are lucky and get a meal at a shelter in an overcrowded room</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Furry critters find discards in trashcans then disappear in the shade<br>While card board hides the wounded in bedrooms that are handmade<br>The bail bonds man is open for business located by the police station<br>Where the sleepless gather discussing the consequences of a violation<br>The city canalization coughs to the whistle of rusty air condition shafts<br>And dirty layers of clothing are protecting an old woman from cold drafts</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Soon it will be dawn again and the nightly creatures will move aside<br>When fancy cars arrive from the suburbs like an inevitable new tide <br>Starbucks will sell hot coffee for the price of a warm bed at the shelter<br>And the self satisfied suits embrace a new day of stress and swelter<br>At night the streets will change again keeping the equilibrium in tact<br>What time will you be downtown and are you sure as a matter of fact</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Kristina+Louisa+Carr">Kristina Louisa Carr</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=431153" data-title="Downtown de Kristina Louisa Carr" data-description="Architectural wonders built with lots of power and expertise Tower above a tamed river touching the clouds with ease Precise vertical constructions planned by structural engineers Impressive connotations that have to withstand many years The river..."></div> </div> </div>

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