Cities and Suburbs:
City lights flicker on and off above an endless sea of sound
Another day gone by.
A radio rests on the apartment window, volume turned up loud
Mom's Mozart can't compete with Daughter's Pop.
Teenagers pass by----Scurrying quickly away from the deadly Chicago streets
They chatter on as they take the alley-cut home.
A homeless man and a wealthy woman both cross the same street,
Going their separate ways.
Both ignore the other in sound silence as they pass.
But as cars pass each other in frustration,
Drivers caught in webs of traffic,
As I write this from a silent suburban town
Where diverse noise, sounds, sights, tastes are scarce,
I envision a seagull, flying above the sights and sounds of the city
wanting to escape it all to a quiet sanctuary.
If we were to change places with the other for just one moment,
Would we be happier?
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