Gliding, in a half daze through the largest city on the planet
Tall building after tall building after tall building
A succession of Manhattans. Numbers beyond imagination.
This mad crazy city. This jumble bumble of life and living.
Of beeping cars and fearless pedestrians.
Of sights and sounds and smells and cries.
A concentration of humanity, unheard of in all history.
All yapping and laughing and loving.
I yearn for my tower in the sky. The jetlag gnawing through my skull.
I’m whisked through a tunnel, winding beneath a deep river
Cleaving this town between Xi and Dong, the old and the new.
My head longing for quietude 
To sleep, then slowly absorb what all this means,
This wonderful, powerful, incomparable chaos.