New York Caught in Rain

The insufferable city rain
forms insufferable pools
like moody lakes in union
with the insufferable city dirt.
Its co-dependent infected populous
eyelid fosters dirty raindrop tears.

Curse this toxic drummer!
This merit-less downcast, entering
without introduction, swinging
to its own gallows tune, beats the
slighted brown tympanum surface
and co-mingles with a tiny echo,
rising in shock volume.
There is no chance of "it"
giving in and minds its
orchestra with a fury.

In harmony city sirens
holler and moan, serenading
a city detritus wading in
the street's river, slowly
spinning, swimming, diving
kamikaze into the grated dank,
inside the dark alternate universe
below, never to commence like
it should, leaving us never
wanting an encore.