– I. The Burial of the Dead – And so I asked him:‘Watchman, dear Watchman, what of the Night?What is left of the Light? My sight? I’d rather dreamOf snow-sprinkled dawns and little wooden bridgesOn rickety dashboards against distant Rocky ridgesOr silvery Citibank lights twinkling with Manhattan trepidationOr a glittering London with SkyTrain stations.’ ButContinue reading “Watchman, What of the Night?”
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the numbers
(one, two, three) (one, two, three)(one, two, three)(one, two, three)
the silence
let me quietly bask in all the cacophony let me sing and shout above all the misery let me listen to all the wonder of the world and let me turn the silence into a deafening roar.
the ventriloquist
you were a conformist an optimistic pessimist the ventriloquist of a polythene heart.