bursting down broadway blazing with mozart <br />the paramount tosses out onto lacquered pavement <br />bundled parcels under deco neon <br />(mozart forty-one tonight! etc. etc. etc.) <br /> <br />clouds withdraw from canopied skies: a curtain for the stage: <br />the tangled web of heaven <br />bearing the spent orb of earth <br /> <br />serpentine slither whines <br />in subterranean link <br />securing others’ far away to less away than broadway <br /> <br />doorways, jambways, chainways, <br />sleeping rags in bagways <br />iron-on gates in storeways <br />bedrooms cardboard rollaways <br />empty socket eyeways <br />darkened castoff lumpaways <br /> <br />broad portal, boulevard, wide avenue, <br />the burial site, grave, coffin, never cocoon <br />(cocoons need spring) <br />canopied skies pour solvents- the respite cleansing <br />like the rough grip of sandpaper number two <br />sweeping the living decay from one end to the other and back again <br />and the occasional mozart blazing away<br /><br />Andrew James<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/bursting-down-broadway-blazing-with-mozart/
