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Rip up
Rip it up
Like a Caesarian through the womb of
the city
Cut and cover, no need to tunnel,
too expensive
Rip up
Rip it up
Better to build boxes out of wood
A temporary surface for the road
Traffic resumes
While underneath the earth is
excavated
Cement poured, steel beams replacing
wood
Around Queen, hard rock
Dynamite to blast
The nesting birds in the crevasses
of the taller buildings taking flight
Darkening the sky twice daily
Always a man with a shovel
At least one man, one shovel
Excavators like dinosaurs
Men with dented fedoras watching men
in woollen caps lifting buckets of wet cement
Beach sand
from
Men with hard hats, and pneumatic
drills
Excavators like dinosaurs
Always a man with a shovel
At least one man, one shovel
Countless eyes watching
