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Life in Space
by Baldwin C. Newton
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Tower Blocks
by Aidan Andrew Dun
Where the sky goes drifting eastward
in three-dimensional grey, blue and white,
with endless curving equivalents of waves
rolling above city horizons, they stand,
forty decks each of squalor and heartbreak,
these monstrous stratifications of ugliness,
vile silhouettes which damage the world,
five grim cliffs of vertical ferro-concrete
thrusting up to shoulder aside a timid sun,
regarding these monotone objects with horror
the way a doctor looks at growth under skin.
Here are cancers and tumours of London,
these monuments to dysfunctional existence,
sarsens of the dark ceremonial today
where millions go under in slow motion.
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