L.A. Nights (A Flaking Innocence)

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L.A. Nights (A Flaking Innocence)

young_blood
Senior Member

since 2003-09-19

Posts 1115
Indianapolis, IN

0 posted 2005-02-10 09:33 AM

L.A. Nights (A Flaking Innocence)

I crossed the street tonight,
the emptiness of the city is filled only with
the growl and whine of the Lady's blight.
To and fro the cars speed on in an endlessly
monotonous race: supplied by the thought,
"To another place where I may live in peace."

Here, a good cup of coffee
enjoys the company of fresh newspaper,
the smells rise and die with city toxicity.
Telephone poles stand guard in the ward
of another dangerous night in upended heaven.
Keep your eyes ed and looking forward.
That guard appears to be an empty cross,
invisible arms outstretched in submission.
Could this be the image of paradise lost?

Listen closely and you can hear
the ringing as the world decays from birth,
stenches rise pungent from fear.
Lend a bleeding eye to the street
where old traversed paths lead a
magnificent display of defeat.

The perversity of the beauty around
plods through borough and suburb,
wallowing like a pig beaten down.
This place is forgetable to be certain,
this valley among the emerald crown,
but sticks as a used needle in the veins.

Lexy
Senior Member

since 2003-01-28

Posts 1038
California

1 posted 2005-02-10 11:07 AM

ahhhh
so true.
the distortion.
the last part is my favorite.

young_blood
Senior Member

since 2003-09-19

Posts 1115
Indianapolis, IN

2 posted 2005-02-11 05:12 PM

thanks for reading it.

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