Smart phones

here's an idea
the city

how it is all stacked up
like a pancake pile
beginning in the basement
which is a poetic device
meaning the subway

and rising to the skyscrapers
can you see how this is literary?

but no - City of Layers
(as it should be called, i think)
will never be written

because now Vanessa

has me thinking about people instead

and the way you sometimes catch them

sincerely smiling at their smartphones