architecture

i want to build skyscrapers that don't scrape the sky
i want them pointed down into the earth
one hundred floors towards the mantle
i want a city of skyscrapers pointed towards the center of the world
dug out with holes around so out the windows you can see the dirt and worms
where passerby might fall and land on the top floor
a building where getting to the top is easier than leaving

skyscrapers that don't take you away from the world but into it
where you don't get to the top and think 'how small we all are'
but 'how large we all are'
and you think about how capable human beings are
how craftily we're pulling the green off the earth like shitty magicians,
yanking the thin veil of life off to reveal a ball of wasteland underneath

the top floor
where the stink sinks down to and the air is dense with the filth of people
where you drop a penny and it doesn't crush anything

skyscrapers facing the center of the earth
because fear of heights is fairly common
but fear of depths is epidemic