The World Is but a Canvas to the Imagination
The Western Front
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I shut the creaky car door I scuffed my shoes against pebble and cement Strode toward the night-time bench Stared up The moon looked cracked and broken When sitting under mangled crooked oak tree arms Strands, strings, from the bottom of weathered jeans Trailed behind like chains The wind took the cracked torn leaves And led them safely across the street Wondering what conversations Pass through the telephone wires Hung like cobwebs between all these bare trees Covering ears with dusty hands when trains rolled through Cars of coal, they drudge and groan, Moan their tales of other towns they've seen That sleep just like ours A tin can rolls and hits the curb The wind laughed hard It was he that pushed him A plane light flashes on and off As someone inside flips a page on their book A black cat runs across the street And slips into the dark alley That runs behind the video store And where they write the town paper The kittens pounce and rip the mouse Their mother caught by the church Tire scrapes on yellow curbs As kids in cars pulled up and hung from windows they put down When racing into town The driver had ignored the darkened fields And raced with headlight guides As the others reached up towards the sky They had to close their eyes Outstretched arms and spread wide fingers Reaching for the endless sky and space A doe passed through Yellow pools of growing light And jumped a barbed wire fence An old man checked his pocket watch Growled low, spit and coughed Riding a pogo stick from the train tracks to city hall Waving sweetly at a car when you don't mean it at all Filling soda cans with gray-laced cigarettes Coughing loud, halfway faking the sound Hoping your script will convince a friend to quit A tin can rolls and hits the curb The wind laughed hard It was he that pushed him A plane light flashes on and off As someone inside flips a page on their book A black cat runs across the street And slips into the dark alley That runs behind the video store And where they write the town paper The kittens pounce and rip the mouse Their mother caught by the church A point and click picture Highlighted eight figures Legs and arms crossed Or littering the sidewalk Leaning back on the 6th Street bench Or scribbling notes on a gas station receipt Toes curling up underneath feet As the moon must have been frozen For the last night in a row We packed up boxes And rented apartments To head out in this lonely world alone A book bag never filled with books Ennis, MCrea and a Naked Lunch A worn box filled with black snake wires That connect to various electrical devices Andy and Red rolled up on paper Ticket stubs and pictures of winter An answering machine used a year ago Still has old messages from people that are gone Give me a call when you get off work You're leaving in two weeks We should really hang out The lamp that I use to light up my face When sitting at the keyboard and typing away A pocket watch with cold dead hands That I'd like to fix to click again Forks, knives and paper plates Black slacks, white shirt and tie just in case I get a job or meet a girl The smile that forms on your face from the car As you pull up to the grocery story And see how much your brother has grown That year you've been away from town The driveway stained from oil and paint The extension cord asleep on the floor Half in the sun - half in the shade The heat baked him a vibrant orange White chips of paint strewn across your face They stick from sweat and hold their place Drip to your shirt and stain your legs I turned my back to the moon And he followed me right out of town Awkward smiles all around but I thought I saw Buried behind that stoic face A smile from months ago Under layers and layers of days and weeks Of living our own lives on sunny beaches And wet mountain country
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