Apartment pool

[Achebe]

By the window,
a child wakes from the light.
Stirring on his mattress, 
he watches the walls of his room
live & die
live & die....suggesting a blinking light, but 'live and die' for 'light up and turn dark' is an avoidable abstraction, since nothing else in the poem talks about life or death in a more general sense.
from the strange electric glow,
still dancing in rhythm ...the 'still' is unnecessary
to the hiss of the city night. ....you have lost me here. I don't see how a blinking light can be dancing in rhythm to city sounds. Unless it's right next to a disco, which does more than 'hiss' for sure.

This'd probably be better as a haiku