Urban Scenescape (2008)

Urban Scenescape (2008)

A Poem by Kerouac's Mistress

Sweat mixed with heavy kohl,

Smeared along railtrain windows.

Grease and blood, muck

Slinked in to the corners there...

See?

 

Blinking white light makes

Eyes heavy and thick with

Desperation. Jolted back and forth,

bounced.

The ear-splitting noise of metal against

Metal, shakes and rattles tuneless, sure...

Hear?

 

Screaming in at the last station, she

Lurches to abrupt halt, doors expel

And vomit chaos in to the tunnels.

Arrows dictate with heavy hands, here

And there. This way, or that.

 

Go.

© 2011 Kerouac's Mistress


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Whole thing echoes on the inside of my head. Fantastic.

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Kerouac's Mistress
Kerouac's Mistress

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