Friday, September 27, 2013

THE DERELICT'S SONG

heavy slabs of gray cloud

predict a harsh snowy winter around here


and my only shoes are worn to holes

and my pants legs are shredded at the cuffs


old age spreads like a cataract over some vision

and every day grows closer to milky pearl light


oh I never thought it would come down this way

I never thought the street itself would be my bed


nor did I think that those who once knew me 

would turn away pretending they didn't...


heavy slabs of gray cloud imitate a stone vault's lid

and the burning torches of this crypt would be


the glowing figures of onlookers tsk tsk-ing

before wandering away to their own dooms...






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