Monday, July 11, 2011

That'll be all for today

On the escalator, I’m going up

Steel planes, folding collapsing

Dying into the jagged teeth.

Reborn at the bottom.

For a moment, I want to be

A recycling immortal.

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Inside the steam room, the figures loom large

Dwarfs Demons Minotaurs

Breathing like engines

The round lights glow smudged

Beyond iron cages

An underground train passes,

The ground trembles. I feel like

Toiling inside a steam ship

On storm tides.

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I shower and tremble.

Cold water crawling down

Like a hundred serpents.

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Walking on the street

I jump over the obstacles,

And the ditches. I tell myself,

This ain’t the life of mine.