A small blue hush across the Old West

Tracks load down into dirt track

where wild eyed poets scream and laugh

of the darkness the love to dance in.

 

Fragmented pigeons ignore give way

            signs to reach their third heaven

lines of human traffic run along

pads polite as downhill penguins

keeping heads bowed away from connecting eyes

 

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Ladies at the tomb.

 

In the underground ballroom

            with the sounds of Girls Aloud

In my quiet corner

 

I knew the words but had forgotten the Waltz

Crooning, rolling, chirping,

Music pervading every avenue of life

 

The Stazi arrested Orpheus and his lyre

            and empty busking hat were seized

down in the underpass