"The City" by H.P. Lovecraft

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The picture used is "Greenwich Village NY - Lovecraftian Concept Art" by mcrassusart, used here under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/).

This initially brought to my mind the sunset city from "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath", but since that city ended up being a happy place, while the ending of this poem is less happy, I went with something else for the picture here.

To follow along: https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/poetry/p184.aspx