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"[Poem: about the negative, bad excesses of big cities, in particular. While they are found everywhere, they are more easily seen in big cities where they are more overtly catered for. By the same token, big cities also cater for positive, good things.]

'Owed to New York'

Vulgar of manner, overfed,
Overdressed and underbred,
Heartless, Godless, hell's delight,
Rude by day and lewd by night;
Bedwarfed the man, o'ergrown the brute,
Ruled by boss and prostitute:
Purple-robed and pauper-clad,
Raving, rotting, money-mad;
A squirming herd in Mammon's mesh,
A wilderness of human flesh;
Crazed by avarice, lust and rum,
New York, thy name's 'Delirium.'

" - Byron Rufus Newton
(1861-1938). He was a war correspondent during the Spanish-American War and then after writing for the 'New York Herald' became the city's tax commissioner. Cole's 'Quotable New York' dates the above poem to 1906.
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