Keyring's clinking on my cut time stride
under lights, buzzing islands in the ink sea night.
Slink away from my murky years,
they're piling up
and I'm hunched, walking dumb
across the hazard yellow lines.
Behind me
the night just rolls up
almost outruns me to my front doorstep.
The hungry
hills enclose
our mid-size
opaque town.
Old partners,
forgotten crimes we
did and left trails of clues, all gutshot
creep hunching
through this skull
beneath a
fraying cap.
Keyrings jangle like anxieties
in my chest, humming static in the core of me.
Sinking in to familiar tones;
shades purple grey.
And it's cold, striding slow
through the west side warehouse lots.
Behind me
the teeming sidewalks
shout half-slurred spears at my back retreating.
The half-light
spills itself
on wrinkled,
trenching brows.
And out there
the night just rolls up
to darken the mat by your front doorstep.
You're just a
single thought
and several
miles away.
Mar 12, 2015
Mar 12, 2015 at 2:03 PM UTC
Keyring's clinking on my cut time stride
under lights, buzzing islands in the ink sea night.
Slink away from my murky years,
they're piling up
and I'm hunched, walking dumb
across the hazard yellow lines.
Behind me
the night just rolls up
almost outruns me to my front doorstep.
The hungry
hills enclose
our mid-size
opaque town.
Old partners,
forgotten crimes we
did and left trails of clues, all gutshot
creep hunching
through this skull
beneath a
fraying cap.
Keyrings jangle like anxieties
in my chest, humming static in the core of me.
Sinking in to familiar tones;
shades purple grey.
And it's cold, striding slow
through the west side warehouse lots.
Behind me
the teeming sidewalks
shout half-slurred spears at my back retreating.
The half-light
spills itself
on wrinkled,
trenching brows.
And out there
the night just rolls up
to darken the mat by your front doorstep.
You're just a
single thought
and several
miles away.
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