Mike County on Wieners' soft city. When we die, does the soft city follow shortly thereafter? I suppose it's more like decomposition, parts of it fade away, some quickly, some slowly, until only the skeleton remains, and then only shards. Relics. Wieners' apartment on the spine of the underground railroad. The work remains though, the piles on which all three cities stand, each a penumbra of the other.

But what hardships the soft city endures in life...it bruises and recoils. Under every church, temple, library, a rabbit hole. What does the soft city look like, isolated from the frame of its concrete brother? An amoeba fanning its wings. Walt Whitman's unquiet apparition doing the zombie waltz, forever searching for his lost, beloved head...