we who are cities we who are cities a film by apa agbayani additional video by jl javier special thanks: santiago arnaiz, chino cruz, keisha kibanoff — once, my palm found its landing down the runway of your spine. now we’ve flown so far apart, my hands barely remember your skin. you left to seek peace in the stone-faced grandeur of landscapes; i left to find it in the low rumble of the city—the underground deltas where streams of people converge and diverge. the clean of this city unnerves me. i yearn to scratch at the veneer that seems to cover everything, and say, “show me your stories, show me your soul.” i scratch and scratch, yet it is i that unravels—my skin and my stories collecting in a pool at my feet. perhaps it is we who are cities, and these buildings make their home in us. i found peace in the mystery of maps—that, in ever-larger circuits, every option was laid out before you: this train station, the one on the other side of the city; this city, the city on the other side of the world; this world, the world on the other side of the universe. but a city never stops becoming, ever in between building and demolishing itself. do you think the universe is the same? tell me, have you found what you were looking for? is it on the maps you follow with your index, across lands loved by the hands of thousands before you? every name on a map has seen blood spilt. who bled on the cobblestones under your feet? everyone here is just trying to find their way home. it isn’t always a place on a map. wouldn’t it be easier if it were? still, there are places that no map will know—the crook of your shoulder, the curve of your mouth as it opens, the crest that juts from your hip. perhaps we are built and demolished, these stories living within us, then crumbling to nothing between breaths. perhaps it is we who are cities—there, present, real, then suddenly not. _______ FOLLOW LIPSapp Classic Radio _______ FB: r-js/1vz7Pcz / TW: r-js/1kHd2Qt / Listen to LIPSapp Classic Radio r-js/1dOIQ18 #classicrock #rollingstones #ledzeppelin #santana #eagles #zztop #thewho #beatles #elvis #jimihendrix #dylan #acdc #michaeljackson #pinkfloyd #madonna #u2
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