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Burning down the pike
F.R. Toscano
It was a good idea
Burning Down The Pike.
I danced around the bonfire created by
The Looff carrousel,
Jumped through the flames -
As if inspired by
The muses that ignited them and
Named each and every
Stationed horses with gilded bits
Going nowhere.
How I wanted to immortalize
Their sad faces with quick embraces.
But remembering them seemed enough.
So close to water but
This far from heaven,
Seemed like
The right thing to do was rebuild.
But what today is vibrant,
Yesterday was concrete.
There are a million faces here come midnight and
A million dreams that never mattered:
Dimmed lights fail to inspire more
Than grunion runs and
Ghosts from the Queen Mary
Across Rainbow Harbor or
The breakers beyond.
Everything has died again while
The beaches recede to what should have been and
Never was.
(16 April 2008)
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"The most well founded opinions, the most harmonious philosophic systems have always seemed precarious: Contradictory remarks made by others seem to me just as valid." - Francis Ponge (translated by Beth Archer)
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