Large Cappuccino

[billy]

The jungle sings
a million tones
pacifying concrete’s million
tints of grey

canopies that will
no longer shelter fern and frond
shout a singular defiant shade
to civilised Starbuck's coffee cups
sipped from;
alfresco at the corner of the mall

a pox and plague
of open wounds
fester by the asphalt scars
wallets lined
with high-rise smog
and leaves of paper green

the jungle sings
a million tones
concrete trumps the notes
with grey