A fountainhead of culture gushing GAUDILY!

Relentlessly feed-backing man’s aesthetic self-consciousness

 Prodigiously reinventing

Symbiotically

The nature of the unnatural

Contained by this one-of-a-kind artist pool

New York

Creating - recreating

Plagiarizing

Perfecting that which must come into being

Or be forever lost in the vacuum of iconoclastic mystery

Getting right to the point

With no in-betweens to muddle up the tempestuous spontaneity

Of conditioned response

Fertilizing

With the blood and guts of genius

And the exponential lubrication

Of technological breakthrough

HUGE!

With more than enough power to change lives overnight

For better or worse

Under its cloak of insatiable opportunity

Driven by a contagion of lust for wealth

Stardom

A living wage

And the illusive crown of immortality

Joining – welding

Bravely coexisting

Demolishing - building

Scrounging with synergistic aplomb

Tenaciously telling it like it is

Was

And will be

Is intense city

John Christopher

2004