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Donnie Cox
the night
trying to outlast the night
mind utterly out of control
dreams have become one
with the dreamer
too much nervous noise
freight trains rolling by
louder than usual
i can hear the blood rush
through rivered arms-
in my head every image
is reduced to its essential elements
broken down
& put together again
still
fragments drift apart-
leaving a feeling of sadness
too sweet for the blues
like when a train
pulls away from the station
& leaves you standing
at the outer edge of nowhere
without a point of reference-
all sanity swallowed
by unrestrained confusion
reality bleeds away
& will not last til morning
repetition of a song
take me
to a place
where midnight
accumulates
don't want
to see the sun
anymore-put me
on a train
with no windows
where nighttime
lasts forever
& a speed-mad
engineer with
a mechanical heart
high balls
a coal-black engine
through
time tunnels
like a bullet
leaving a gun
where the speed
of darkness
is faster than
the speed of light
dreaming up
a nocturnal scene
mingus & monk softly
behind
a tan-skinned lady
white flower
in her hair
singing "keeps on a rainin"
just give me things
i can depend on
red wine, old times
the repetition of a song
the wall
--- for "old granddad" (& all that is new)
scattered at the base
of a implausible wall
taller than the night-
martyred bodies lie
hopelessly entangled
in the sacred blue light
of all that is new-
clenched fists
down to the bloody bone
torn away atom by atom
by pointless pounding
against ancient stone
buzzard's meat-
a wasted stack
of stationary sadness
once so hip-
they taught the sun
to go down on time
so aware-
they could sense
starlight on bare backs
so arrogant-
they imagined
burning it all
to the ground
with the fingers
of their fiery, right hands
haughty sentries
look down from the tower
on the senseless sacrifice
& laugh out loud
as another
unarmed crusader
rides forward
with ragged banner flying
carrying one more
ultimatum
for the wall
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