"This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air. - W. B. Yeats

Sunday, September 26, 2010

Homesick/Homeless

If it’s possible to be lonely

When brushing shoulders with the city

And the scat-jazz raindrops

Fall on colorless pavement

Then it’s possible to be full

Of some howling-wind feeling

Of home or not

Or here and there

And have a cup of tea

And watch the droplets

(named like horses- Lucky Strike and Betelgeuse and Sir John Falstaff)

race down the rattling pane.

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