These are the currents that chiselled the city (dogdaysofsummer D

Title: These are the currents that chiselled the city
Rating: G
Disclaimer: So not mine.
Prompt: But I love it, I love this city
How slender is the space between love, mercy and ill will
I love to live inside its flesh and blood
To feel its ailing pulse in its hidden veins

--Abd al-Sabūr, Ibhār [1940]
tr. from the original Arabic unknown
Summary: London, 1980. Sirius doesn't want to doubt. Title from U. A. Fanthorpe's Rising Damp 892 words

( like the rivers beneath his feet confined, restrained, rerouted )