Despite everything -
The remote building had
expectations from the earthquake.
That it would 6 and not 9 her
That it would caress and not throw her off.
The earthquake
Likewise expected
That despite its instinct to shake
The building would stay strong.
Not crumble at its behest.
What happened after is a poem
by an unknown writer.
(The land, we are told,
along with its debris was
sold to a fucking capitalist.
With pristine zest
To welcome the foreigner,
Even after exhausting every engineering trick,
The new building still does shake).
