Tell him not to go <br />Tug at his coat sleeves <br />Cry out in plea <br />Won’t you? <br /> <br />He’s going now <br />All suited up in black <br />Sullen cabbie waits <br />In a gaudily festooned hack <br /> <br />Cab fare is ready <br />Two minted coppers <br />Covering his twin orbs <br />As the flag went down <br /> <br />The taxi crept <br />In an unhurried pace <br />The radio droned a hymn <br />I heard it hum a somber tune <br /> <br />The hack bucked and sputtered <br />As he bade goodbye to each block <br />Past known haunts and faces <br />Turning last into a gated arch<br /><br />Eddie Roa<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/leaving-by-taxi/
