Blink
I looked up and blinked, thinking the lamp would go away.
If your only way to improve things is to destroy what was there before, then you're not trying to improve anything but yourself.
Crystalline Landscape by Blackhole12
The City and the Stars by Arthur C. Clarke
There are those you can’t fool because they see right through you…
and then there are those you can’t fool because they can’t see you at all.
The walls have ears. The windows have eyes. The doors have teeth.