The focus of identitarian antiquisation,
A dench bronze Alexander sits on a beast
Of a Leonardesque horse, a mighty creation
Designed to fake the ideal city, at least
On the southern bank, as non-London red
And dirty Chinese double-deckers course
Through spiffy office canyons, erected instead
Of bleak communist flats built perforce
Post earthquake, a moment forever caught
On the half-ruined ex-station’s clock
At 5.17am. What suffering it wrought
I did not know, a fact that made a mock
-ery of my weekend attempt to unravel
The mysteries of this place through trivial travel.
A dench bronze Alexander sits on a beast
Of a Leonardesque horse, a mighty creation
Designed to fake the ideal city, at least
On the southern bank, as non-London red
And dirty Chinese double-deckers course
Through spiffy office canyons, erected instead
Of bleak communist flats built perforce
Post earthquake, a moment forever caught
On the half-ruined ex-station’s clock
At 5.17am. What suffering it wrought
I did not know, a fact that made a mock
-ery of my weekend attempt to unravel
The mysteries of this place through trivial travel.
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