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115 Chek Lap Kok Arid landscape stretching for miles Over a man-made island Little men Little jeeps Coloured pennants Criss-cross the dusty yellow earth From a “Star Wars” movie set A vast central tower has arisen Amidst chrome steel fiberglass And other contorted shapes and sizes Artifice driven to its limits Has called for the largest Urban construction project ever More costly than the “Chunnel” It spreads over and under the city Like a gigantic octopus Of roads rail bridges tunnels Train stations grow underground Above gouged out hollows The city treads on space Come to land In the new airport In nineteen ninety-eight ...

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