Saturday, October 22, 2011

Symphonic Valentine

Sitting outside tonight
right-field of the moon
suddenly one of those spontaneous
city symphonies occurred

incredible French and English horns
great whale underbellies of sound
swelled deep and faraway
from down the street

against a woman’s
almost tender screaming
as if she was being murdered
like a great aria

accompanied by the faint
drilling sound of a thousand
strangled tires in the alley

and then silence
unaccountably
 
for a few eternal
seconds
 
I don’t want to live with anyone anymore
I heard myself say

sometimes I want to believe that lie
but not today

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