Chok-ra

rooftops jostle like hulls of boats
in bay underwater, jumbled.

The same slabbed
concrete pavements,
tiled ceramic sidewalks,
interlocking brick walkways.
Uniform, mundane like any other
Asian city: Shenzhen, Singapore, Taipei, Tokyo
Stepping on the same.

Repetitive homogeneity
of environments, of time,
of rituals, of progeny
like everybody else.