Walking along Miami city streets

Traffic noise is intense

Streets are lined with stores

Music erupts from crowded bars

I can feel the Latin culture

The occasional tree defiantly claims its place

In a sea of concrete and steel 

Noise, aromas and vivid spectacles 

All compete for my attention

My senses are on overdrive

I enter an apartment complex

Shielded from the city noise

I go to the thirteenth floor

Discovering a comfortable apartment

With breathtaking views of the city

Looking through the large windows

I see a different perspective of Miami

The city below is surprising green

Red roofs breaking through the green canopy

Giant terra cotta mushrooms in an urban forrest

I can hardly see any people at all

Vehicles appear to be the dominant life form

Silent cars and trucks glide along streets

Like boats on a crowded canal

Speeding up to reach the stern of the vessel ahead

I am studying McDonalds from my lofty perch

An island surrounded by Mcwater

floating vessels occasionally leave the Mccanal

To circle around the McIsland

They stop briefly to take on McSupplies

McDonalds is the beating heart of the Mccity

The canals are its Mcarteries

McParamedics are dispatched to fix Mcblockages

The vehicles are all well McLubricated

This city will never McDie 

In the mornings, a huge Mctruck visits the McIsland

Drifting in like a supply Mcbarge

Offloading its McCargo

Feeding the McFeeding Mcstation

Before gently floating back to the McCanal

Mcnighttime falls

The canals are Mcilluminated

Spotlights adorn floating McVessels

Mcbuildings glow white hot

The city will not Mcsurrender to McDarkness

A bright Mcyellow M signals the McLighthouse

Beckoning McVehicles to the McIsland

Mcfeeding continues all through the Mcnight

McMiami does not McSleep

McNight turns into McDay