Sunday, June 24, 2007

Utterance

He couldn’t finish.
The dusk came crowding in.
It crowded him out.

But he kept mumbling.
What was he…?

That’s the way other people look:

Flat on the pavement
Under the air.

Not that death has anything to do with it --
It’s just a dream --

Just a word you say again and again.

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