The Coffee Stirrer

They just finished the world’s thinnest skyscraper.

From the street above landmarked Steinway Hall,

with a height to width ratio of 24:1, it’s a monument

for impressive design. Strikingly slender it sways,

a giant coffee stirrer in the wind. With a futurist slant,

it’s the second tallest building in the western hemisphere. 

Shaking up West 57th Street, more than a quarter-mile high

but no more than 60 feet wide, The Steinway Tower is open

and it’s a bit terrifying to imagine living in the structure. 

Along with Affirmation tower and Summit One Vanderbilt,

some silly promises on famed Billionaire's Row

has once again redefined the Big Apple’s skyline.

Terra-cotta pilasters adorn the facade in a hat tip to the golden age.

It’s not a megatall just a supertall. Can’t compare it to a mountain,

waves and waves…perhaps a very tall hoodoo fairy chimney.

Stepped back wedding cake with its own elegant tiara. 

One day it may house a Non-Fungible museum, 

so let me be the first to offer this poem to be digitized.

To the long shadow cast over Central Park, stir your coffee stirrer.