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Posted by Atticus on October 9, 2005, at 15:06:58
I walked beside the razor wire,
A harlequin, eyes all afire,
Seeking his jester’s dark desire,
An ashcan, skid-row funeral pyre
To burn away the muck and mire,
To rise above the dark and dire
That tar-stained thoughts seemed to desire,
A cracked sidewalk my slim empire,
Lined with crack houses that require
Blood sacrifices that only sire
Changling children who require
Suckling needles to rise higher.I cast my gaze to neon stars
Blazing like bottled sun,
Serpentine glass constellations
Waiting for someone,
To divine signs from glowing tubes,
To undo what is done,
But I’m no urban astrologer,
Just an urchin on the run.The pieces of ten million dreams,
Lay spread among the rotting beams
Like brick walls split by ragged seams,
Tossed among the weeds by teams
Whose icy eyes are marked by gleams
Of frozen parchment stacked in reams,
Poetry frozen in mid-stream,
Uncoupled couplets, curdled cream
Of asphalt philosophers who deem
This city cannot be redeemed,
It’s sinking amid pits of steam,
Controlled by unseen men of means.I cast my gaze to neon stars
Blazing like bottled sun,
Serpentine glass constellations
Waiting for someone,
To divine signs from glowing tubes,
To undo what is done,
But I’m no urban astrologer,
Just an urchin on the run.
Posted by sleepygirl on October 12, 2005, at 21:46:23
In reply to A Harlequin, Eyes All Afire, posted by Atticus on October 9, 2005, at 15:06:58
like those glowing tubes, you mean the church candles right?
Posted by Atticus on October 15, 2005, at 15:06:39
In reply to Re: A Harlequin, Eyes All Afire, posted by sleepygirl on October 12, 2005, at 21:46:23
No, I literally mean "glowing tubes" -- neon signs that litter the cityscape like fallen constellations. Atticus
Posted by sleepygirl on October 15, 2005, at 19:59:34
In reply to A Harlequin, Eyes All Afire, posted by Atticus on October 9, 2005, at 15:06:58
sorry- I guess that was fairly apparent
I guess I keep making that catholic church, dark velvet, incense etc, association toward your work since I read one of your poems a while back.
-must be the catholic school PTSD
Posted by Atticus on October 18, 2005, at 9:14:18
In reply to Re: A Harlequin, Eyes All Afire » Atticus, posted by sleepygirl on October 15, 2005, at 19:59:34
No worries. I do tend to use Catholic metaphors culled from my upbringing often in my work. Comedian and fellow Irishman Denis Leary once commented during a stand-up routine, "You may leave the Catholic Church, but it never leaves you. You're in for life." Ta. Atticus
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