Posted by Atticus on September 15, 2004, at 20:39:47
Dragon Scales on Subway Rails
Polyphonic techno-symphonic quasi-cool
Day-glo slo-mo rooster-combed fools
Trippin’ and clickin’
Like hypnotized chickens,
Like graffiti apparitions
Peeled from brownstone canvases
And gone walkabout
Down cement-slab high-fashion
High-passion
Catwalks
Lined with weedy lots
And supercalifragilistic chain-link vines
Topped with ravishing razor-wire garlands
Spun of the purest silver ribbons
From dragon scales laid
On subway rails
By bebop-loving blacksmiths
At the subterranean forges
Hidden in the sublimely slimy
And ferociously fiery tunnels
Between the stations
Where train wheels squeal out
Sibilant triumphant sprays of orange sparks
While groovin’ to the beat
Of the struttin’ on the street
Overhead
And thinkin’,
“Ain’t this the hippest
Scene you ever
Did see?”
-- Atticus
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