Dubai

A city of fingers
Bedecked in jewels coarse and subtle

Fingers sculpted in imaginations set free from the limits of cash

Fingers
Stuck out at the sky
Fingers adorned with a million stars shrouding the sky with their rainbow blinks

Long thin fingers
Wafting through closets and safes and bank accounts
Grasping fingers finagling value out of thin air and powdery dust

Fingers reclaiming life from nature, water and desert
Wresting habitat from sun sea and salt

Fingers of black and gold, finest silk and coarsest calico
Fingers hiding the souls behind a mask
Hiding the prada behind a gown but flaunting the masaretti

A city of fingers
Is false like her nail polish
Temporary like her Brazilian hair
Fingers that beacon pockets and reason
Fingers that flick off roots like cigarette ash.

Dubai.


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