R O A R
it’s a blast furnace, I tell
ya
there’s a roar going
on
continuously
in the morning when I
wake
thunderous ramparts
explode
off-shore
light
brigades battling
the ever-defensive
shoreline
pounding
crashing
igniting
memories of sulfuric
incandescences
revolutionary
battling
pipers in a
row
and that’s just from the
west
jeez
the
pre-dawn roar is already
there, come
eastward
the industrial-age
rumble
turned 21st
century
ubiquitous sirens – thank
God
they’re there – yeah
so
the buses, carrying their
crops
to keep this city
growing
the incessant orange
glow
so refining, so enervating, so
diminishing
of a spark, an ember, a
conflagration
the constant movement of
equipment
the continual
heat
that continual
roar
commerce being
served
jets blasting off subserviently
southward
newschoppers
everywhere
the freeway
whine
all heating up an internal
core
there’s a roar going
on
continuously
–
paul tanck
Posted: Thu - November 1, 2007 at 02:22 PM