A lamppost named Mark: pt. III.
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III.
You know, perhaps—
perhaps you know—
there are so many lampposts…
One hero must have caught that hovering train,
escaped his fate, so late, so late,
at night, at night, at night.
On a dark speeding train, our hero, waiting,
watching lights cast shadows,
“Where to, Mr.?”
“The only place I ever go
no matter where I am,
elsewhere.
“Like beauty making beautiful old rhyme,
Or consciousness evoking this sweet lie,”
The Lamppost, half-blind, asked the starry sky,
“The blinking of my eye does pass the time?”
Now on that train I cautiously awake,
don’t give the dream time to evaporate,
pick up my pen, scribble Defenestrate.
I smile, then laugh, and wakefulness forsake.
My lamppost hero journeyed cross the sands—
Deserted desert cut by canyon ridge—
He dangerously danced along the edge.
This precipice cannot be crossed by man.
“Unless the time that travels makes me man,
enough to see the cliffs become the sand.”
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