Roads sombres
smokeyness greys the yellow-grey heavens
shoddy clotheshops scarletrams brutal chrome-and-purple
posters gloomy sameness of passers by
women white faced and crimson-mouthed
men white jowled and crimson-pimpled
Lust and Greed struggling for supremacy:
horrors of overdressed sluts parading as humans
herding in vehicles, cattle-like, men ogling
bold-looks-returning, men arming their concubines
gripping their waists with dirty-nailed hands,
unshaven men jeering, hobbling of deformed monsters,
redolence of dust, grease, and fish-and-chips –
And in the midst, she lovelinessing.