-zilla

[nibbed]

You say you want to rebuild the cafes,                                         = Why Rome?
galleries, parks, restaurants
exactly how you loved them.
Have you forgotten? You rampaged
through the city thrashing, insensate                                            =Very good picture, I imagined spinning fists.
like Mothra raging for her eggs,                                                     =Love this. I honestly began a serious giggle at this point, turned to snickers.
but you had no noble motive.                                                       =How we all feel when we see such riotousness, what does it accomplish?
                                                                     
The sidewalks look like puzzles.                          
Freeways split like banana halves.
The buses don't run, love,                                                               =I admire the word love here, seems unconditional.
but we can count change anyway.                                                  =little to nothing for which to work with
We can ignore the rubble,
hurdle the felled trees,                                        
or sit on the subway and feign                              
it's moving. We'll order the only food                                                =I do like order here instead of "grab"
on the corner store's menu:
deep fried rats and alley cats,                                

make small talk                                                                                       
and pass the salt.                                                                                   


                                                                                                            I've longed to read such cleverness. Your changes were good, too.
                                                                                                            Will I ever manage to be half as accomplished?

                                                                                                             Thank you.