U is for Urban

is for Urban

Urban's crossness

Pope Urban said crossly to Galileo,

"In this awful business of your helio –

you see centricism is fine

if you know to draw the line,

as for where it’s centred – that would be geo."

Pope Urban was mostly suave n urbane

except he lost it at Galileo’s vein,

“The sun the centre? Just absurd!

besides it contradicts the Word

and I’m not allowing that during my reign.”

I don't know much about Pope Urban (or for that matter any Pope, very little to do with Popes and Kings and lofty beings). But Urban is not my favourite word, and why anyone Pope or otherwise, should choose to have it as a name beats me hollow.  

Urbanisation is a serious issue where I come from, the socio-economic impacts are mind boggling.  Personally, I have grown up in spaces that are beyond back-of-beyond, and therefore tall, dense buildings, concreted roads bristling with the ubiquitous sodium vapour lamps,  and too many people milling around, all make me want to take off at 100 miles an hour. The only advantage to city living that I can think of are bookshops and libraries.  I'd rather be a forest than a street any day, or to be more specific, an African grassland than a street.  Grasslands imho are Uber cool, have you ever seen any street that was of the same awesomeness as a stretch of savannah? Nope, me neither.

Posted for the A-Z Challenge 2016