As all other poems in the book, Cities & Memory 2 is also about journey and the cities. The writer talks about the city Isidora which "the buildings have spiral staircases encrusted with spiral seashells, where perfect telescopes and violins are made, where the foreigner hesitating between two women always encounters a third, where cockfights degenerate into bloody brawls among the betters”(cities &memory 2)
In the last part of the poem, writer actually trying to imply that the Isidora is his imaginary or dreamed-of city that he always imagine or dream about it. The writer is actually old person but he contained him as a young man. In my opinion, If we think about his dream of city and his wondering to be a young man, we will understand that there is a secret message about the importance of time. As we know time is the most valuable thing one can spend but unfortunately people don’t aware of its valuable.
"Time is the coin of our life. It is the only coin you have,and only you can determine how it will be spent"
Carl Sandburg
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