New builds.
Everywhere in London now is just
New builds, new builds: save up 10 years for one,
Knock down a petrol station, for one,
Lose sleep on a mortgage for one,
Fuck a new build, have you been in one?
They’re gross; echoey, badly lit, bad walls
Narrow halls, hollow doors and appropriated names.
Boast about being on the property ladder with one?
Two years of toast for dinner, for one?
Decimate local communities by buying one?
Everywhere in London now is just
New builds, new builds: the new Tesco Express,
Cranes everywhere like vultures,
Looming in wait, above the homeless,
Architects, investors: social masturbators,
Fucking the city away one new build at a time;
People scraping savings from relatives, partners—
Or working a 50 hours a week, for one;
33% ownership is probably fine, for one (?)—
A capital in social darkness; vast, sick, doomed.