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Tinnitus
Constant hissing
tinnitus
Corrodes each ear canal
Traffic drones in limitless
Disturbing parallel
At high noon on the avenue
A modern prince of peace
Pulling popgun into view
Inflates the crystal beast
His eyes a dazzled diamond grit
Sunk deep in socket rouge
His mother had survived unfit
With babies born to lose
Cold sustenance by rubbish bin
How did you get so raw?
So nouveau-Dickens gutter thin
Those scabby dumpster paws
Ragged gringo, spirit spent
With world view in tatters
Wheezing over steaming vent
Escape is now what matters
I drive by with windows up
Jazz dripping off the dash
A genteel boomer thunderstruck
Righteously aghast
[Mar 9,
2006]
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The
Poetry of Daniel Harrison