The City of London - (poem for #audiomo Day 27)

The City of London Cocktail-shaker for the World Bridge-builder, fortune-maker City of greetings, grime and grit City of tongues City of preachers, teachers and elephants City of wars City of screams and exhibitionists City of Empire City of fires, plague and drawing rooms City of parks, love-makers, trouble-makers, heart-breakers, imperial, ethereal, thirst-slakers, pace-makers, peace-wakers City of dogs, cats, rats, scavengers and paintbrushes City of players, symphonic stayers, hyperbolic cares City of ruins City of wounds, marches and prayers City of bubbles, stock-takers City of pain, disdain, refrain City of shoes, falafel, matzoh ball soup, chopped liver, peppercorns, cardamom, chillies and curls City of deaths, debts, resurrections, assumptions City of refugees City of the poor City of the sword City of slaves, waves, graves, sails Race-gobblers City of the clock City of time and charts City of natural history, kings, queens, nobility, futility City of the blitz and bliss ...