whose city is it if you have to ask
follow the dotted lines 
mind the stuttering featureless pedestrians
steer clear of those who straddle them
the solid spirits held in magnetic grid
supermagnets whose city it is if you have to ask
some from elsewhere not immigrants but aliens
not claiming to reside only to lay pipelines
some leaving marks indicate what they gone do
while others mark what got done to them
one crew erases the indications of the other
whose city if you have to know 
you can do anything you've a mind to do
just don't do it here or here or over here
whose city is it if you have to ask
the ones with the permit to displace
whose city the developers don't know you don't 
have to ask