Status Updates From Las ciudades invisibles

Another one like sidartba about great ebb and flow on the biggest most human scale but also feels deeply intimate and personal each repitition

“ your cities do not exist. Perhaps they’ve never existed and assure they will never exist again. Why do you amuse yourself with consolatory fables? I know well that my empire is rotting like a corpse in a swamp who’s contagion infects the crows that peck it as well as the bamboo that grows fertilized by its humors. Why do you not speak to me of this?”