Monday, February 9, 2015

On The Street Where I Live


On the street where I live
Corner Rose and Tulip
Love and rejection intersect
The taking and the purging
Adoration and detestation
Religions of the mad
Sanctifying the sad
War and devastation
Building houses in the sky
They fall and still you wonder why
Sand, guardian of cerulean sea
Would have been better
But for the mountains of delusions
Offers of company and currency
From across the greatest ocean, vast divide
Growing older in comfort and misery
For lost love and prideful hurts
Casualties of weird know no bounds
Atlas shirked his titanic task
The gods condemn mortal foibles
Forgetting they are of clay themselves
I live on a street
Where doves hawk wares
Unaware of the fear that makes
The world go sensurround
Getting off is not an option
But, please, do so
Get off on your private kicks
The gents will soon have no dames
The streets will soon have no names

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