Yara Asmar - Stuttering Music (2024)

Since you left they’ve continued building the city.
There is a new theater,
Bigger than the old one.
In the library, they hang your two hats
And the coffee machine still brews the coffee (when there is electricity)
And people still drink it.
A couple had their first kiss by the Jesuit garden and
There is a parking lot now where the building collapsed a few years ago.
You’d think the city would be less than it was once you’ve left it but
It’s more of the same
And maybe even
Too much of it.