…and on and on
We’ve all got our hopes, we’ve all got our problems; the city makes both of those better and worse. The city teaches us anything is possible and but it doesn’t show us how. The city shows us dreams can become realities, and the same is true of nightmares. The city reveals that ugliness and cruelty are endemic, and that beauty and kindness can never be suppressed.
The four seasons are shrugged off; the city is indifferent to the turning of the calendar. The winds blow colder and warmer in the city, and the rain falls only at right angles. The fog mutes the city’s sharp edges, but the city never lets you forget the edges are there, always surgically sharp, always ready to cut you down or cut you loose. Either way, the city doesn’t care; there’s always somebody else to take your place. There’s always somebody who’ll love and hate the city.
It’s been this way forever. It’s what draws us to the city and what turns us away. It’s what keeps us there and what drives us out. It’s the city and it will always break your heart and it will never turn you away and it will always invite you back.
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