VERTICAL METROPOLIS
Silently slip through
optically controlled gates.
These true monitors
assess every visitor,
record a picture
and, whilst issuing passes,
keep an accurate record.
Identities fixed.
Captured in the 21st
Century Taipei.
The obstacle stands,
steely marvel.
Sleek in brutal defiance
of horizontal
earthbound dreams and promises.
This is the way, come!
In half a minute
a vertical ascension.
Eightynine floors to
unique observatory.
Walking the cloud path.
Looking down through wisps of mist
Far below the city
reveals itself, nestled in
mountains, rivers, sea.
Rainbow-shifting under glass.
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