*Only rubes gawk at the skyscrapers in the Big Apple.
However, you might change your principles if it looks
like big pieces of stone and terracotta might peel off them,
and plummet to the streets below.
*This is the Flatiron. At well over a century,
it's the oldest surviving skyscraper in New York.
http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Flatiron_Building.html
*These aging megastructures are advancing
into entropic futurity at the rate of one second per second.
As a Texas boy, I used to fear snow and cold weather. That was
before the advent of high-performance hiking socks
and Patagonia underwear. Now I'm so remote from
the elements that I might as well be walking
on lunar regolith.
