Steel on stone
Hydraulic hammers
Artillery like
Shake the ground,
Pulverising
Architecture
Of past decades
Too expensive
For renovation,
Too difficult
To incorporate
The requirements
Of a rule riddled,
Risk adverse society,
Lacking taste,
Lacking time;
Enraptured
By mousetrap
Constructed
Supermarkets,
Tin canned
Retail warehouses,
Characterless
Shopping malls,
Post industrial
Service centres,
Alcohol palaces
And fast food
Undertakers;
After dark
Desolate, floodlit
Parking grounds
With hungry dogs
That guard rubble
And heavy machinery.
David Subacchi was born in Wales (UK) of Italian roots and writes in English, Welsh and sometimes Italian. Cestrian Press has published three collections of his poetry ‘First Cut’ (2012), ‘Hiding in Shadows’ (2014) and ‘Not Really a Stranger’ (2016). His Blog can be found at http://www.writeoutloud.net/profiles/davidsubacchi.
