to a calgary tower block

this would be a letter,
an affectionate letter
with a bittersweet denouement
and everything
but who would write a letter
to a tower block?


concrete monolith, béton brut
your doors, often locked
after dark, the lights in the windows
binary mosaic
testament to a consciousness state.
i spent nights
with that cypher
mathematics & geometry
giving up in the end
entropy came in waves.


the hallways, i knew well
running through them, angry,
and drunken first-floor enlightenment
furious a-ha moment orgasms
philosophical emissions spent
on the thick nap of those carpets
hallways always in the dark.

i kept the calgary tower block
with an image of it in my head
that i could love.
i return quiet to burn incense.
evacuations pose significant problems.

Now i think about throwing rocks
at the tower block,
but who would throw rocks
at a tower block?