New York

new york, madame,
                                  is a monument to a city

it is  
TA-DA  
a gigantic pike
whose scales  
bristled up stunned

and what used to be just smoke  
found a fire that gave it birth

champagne foam  
melted into metal  
glass rivers  
flowing upwards  
and things you won't tell to a priest  
you reveal to a cabdriver  

even time is sold out  
when to the public's "wow" and "shhh"  
out of a black top hat  
a tailed magician  
is pulling new york out  
by the ears of skyscrapers