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Urban Alienation & Modernity 2026 Trevor Swistchew

Metropolis

Grey Monoliths, Blindfold Momentum, and the Architecture of the Cage

People pulled together for convenience sake
Access to amenities, society, without a break
Speeding blindly onwards like a blindfold horse
Lacking inner vision, motivated by external force
Grey monoliths filled with people, multi storied flats
Shoe box living conditions, life built like that
Can hardly be called living, just existence in a cage
Tied from womb to tomb.

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Trevor Swistchew's poetry and philosophical essays are published in fellowship with The Shady River Bard—exploring a 26-album concept discography, working permaculture, and reflections on human purpose.

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