A CITY UNDER CONSTRUCTION

A war-eaten city
Awaits rebuilding

Treasured old tools are
Searching for new hands, 
New corridors cropping up
On the old relics

To accommodate
Some gilded intermediaries,
Some complacent pontiffs,
Some desperate yuppies,
Some perplexed mandarins,
 With
Their cackling progeny

(© DEEPAK DARSHAK)