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A boat dry docked on stilts.

Christmas Eve I meet up with Charles and his pretty girlfriend Cassy. We eat bread, hummus and salad at their new home, drink wine and talk. Charles leaps in the pool. Their roommates' little girl is crazy excited about her presents. She's being cleverly distracted as her brightly wrapped gifts are shuttled from their various hiding spots to their rightful home beneath the evergreen.

David and I are spending some time together. He and four friends from work are going to see the ball drop for New Years, but they aren't leaving until a few days before. I'm convinced that there won't be time for them to get there.

People come from all over the world, I say, it's a world event. And you're just going to drive up at the last moment?

One part persons, four parts machines, seventeen parts brick mortar and steel. A dash of feral critters. A touch of smart devices. Garnish with wires and radio waves.

Our city creature is a strange tangle.

Sun rise; her persons sift into machines and flush into town, windshields tinkling; her buildings absorb them. Breath, mon amour.

Her roots throb with garbage. An exchange of resources.

What is it you want from us? We give you everything.

Sun down; trickle back to our homes.

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