Tuesday, July 12, 2011

street light baby

a streetlight turns off
conditioned to let us alone
leave us to our own light
which we burn off of memory

a lonely bench appears
beneath a ring of trees with no eyes
no one watches us here
no one asks for a light

a streetlight turns on
electric baby in a crib
of steel, half moon sleeping
look away and it turns orange

and so i often look away from it
a change seems natural
but look how it glows
when we aren't coming back

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