by train:
The cameraderie of the locked step
neglects the essential unity,
which is not found in
shared movements, mind or body:
we still avoid the poetry
offered on the train, the spidery
drawings of eyes moving between
ages and shadows, and when a woman's
belly jiggles as she walks the
instinct of disgust continues solidarity
with desire's tiring monologues.
At nones we are tired,
the same scenes flutter
at the windows, faces
here, now freed from
the massive hand
of the crowd continue
their anonymity still
in pursuit of their
numerous bed, the table
of the sovereign.
Two women attract your attention indistinguishably
Their duplicity the same thing beauty has been telling
You in five-card stud by pairs of jacks and queens
When no recourse to the sky can be made, as here,
As you descend below the earth and the water throws
Up irreplaceable kind farewells to those who came here
Leaning on bones and flesh, faithful to birds, alone.
when a soul’s been solitary for too long, it losts the power to communicate ( I am anonymous )
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