Monday, May 27, 2013

Walking the Line of Propriety Where Memory Fails


Watch it go this disgraceful swindling day
See how anonymous hours become a brass plate
Affixed to the front gate like an historic marker
For what? Ha! Because time acts this way we wrap
The seed of the word-soul in our eternal flag singing
Evening star full of melodramatic panting when
Are we coming back? Perhaps we’ll return when
The old suburb contemplates the little whining gods
Who sleep dissolute in antebellum bedrooms
Maybe we’ll find ourselves here again in pursuit
Of life without respite two savage detectives
Flat-footing down this dark street skirting pools
Of yellow light O see how we refuse even 
To decipher inscriptions on those brass plates

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