The citybuilders

The citybuilders 
put forth their minds.
They plotted in plots 
and drew in lines 
and the lines became streets, 
and the plots grew land, 
and buildings 
in sheets 
vertically at hand. 

And we all bowed heads, 
never noticing it 
As we streamed and we coursed 
where nobody fit. 

And we asked 
for parades, and banners
and parks, and they gave 
us two 

of the latter. So stark