“Air Rights”

BY MICHELLE TOKARCZYK

Air is for sale. List buy & sell New York air rights.

Let your buildings cut through the clouds.

This is your right. No limits on height.

Light is for sale. Stack stories up against their windows.

Challenge their sun and their heat. Let their plants die.

Light is for sale. List buy & sell New York light.

Sleep is for sale. Drill through the concrete and REMs.

Make buildings shudder like they stand before an altar.

Building is your right. No limits on height.

Streets are for sale. See neighbors meet. See neighbors yell.

See neighbors, really, try to fight City Hall.

Streets are for sale. List buy & sell New York street rights.

The city is for sale. Give me your brokers, your CEOs.

Let the huddled masses huddle unhomed in another place.

Building is your right. No limits on height.

The future is for sale. Exponential pieces of silver

and scoundrels subtract from our lives.

Air is for sale. They buy & sell New York air rights.

No limits on height. Who gave them the right?

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