Monday, January 19, 2015

Longitudinous and Affected with Stars


Is that you whose eyes try something new
When night—deep-sunk and damp—invites
The fatal moment youth decides to stop
Returning your phone calls and you watch
Magnificent shadowless lilies bending still
Believing transformation is possible in this
Trampled garden on this muddy ground
Where fatigue stops to smoke a cigarette
Where you say you never know when night
Begins until you barter joy for comfort
O you say the awful thing in life is this:
We all have our reasons and all the plans
We make take on air and finally sink
Leaving things just as they’ve always been


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