Long past beautiful, <br />not even nice, <br />remarkably timid, <br />yet still amazing, <br />tragic and hilarious, <br />penguins try to fly <br />in Echo Park. <br /> <br /> <br />Their deaths will be forgotten <br />almost as certainly <br />as their births. <br /> <br /> <br />They own no heavens. <br />In 1968, they were evicted <br />from hell. <br /> <br /> <br />All they will ever <br />know is the furious hunger <br />of their deluded passions. <br /> <br /> <br />The sun <br />fractured by <br />the dark dreams <br />of the moon.<br /><br />David Kowalczyk<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/los-angeles-after-the-rain/
