(Hammill)



Sometimes living for the moment

sometimes going with the flow

sometimes professing to be an exponent

of the quiet life

while night life

surrounds me I sit

and go crazy alone

too many people and too little action

too much exterior acting too little inside.

Oh, yet I still feel that manic attraction

I've lived in the city for most of my life

and suppose

I'll be there when I die

still going through the frantic motions

still qualifying everything I say

responding urbanely to every emotion

the city life freaks me

the city life feeds me

the city life blows me away