The soliloquy to a street lamp

Moth  ate  the  asphalt  on  my  street
I’m  lying  crushed  in  remains  of  the  road

Hey  there.
Hey,  look.  Stroke  it  .  Yes,  this  is  a  tame  chestnut.
It  sprouts  into  the  most  cheerless  only.  
So  you  have  nothing  to  be  afraid  of.
‘Cause  you  are  a  street  lamp.
You’re  standing  alone,  you’re  crumbling  away  into  the  garbage  can...
You  know,  frequently  I  have  dreams  about  scents  of  frozen  fingers
Locked  in  cracks  under  the  banisters.
They  slide  on  rough  wood
Getting  splinters
And  crackling  with  them  at  the  time  of  thunderstorm.
Once  I  heard  that  with  bits  of  truth  we  knock  colours  out  of  life    
Colours  crave  for  interlacements.
As  a  matter  of  fact,  not  so  rusty  as  you  got.
The  road  disappeared.  Moth,  you  know..
On  the  roadside  there  are  so  many  vagrant  empty  shoes.
Could  you  cure  it  as  you’ve  cured  me  once.
Oh  but  what’s  going  on?
Sand  is  shuffling  upon  the  skin.
It  looks  like  sand  wants  to  commune  with  us.
We  are  as  sandy  as  it  gets,  my  dear  street  lamp.
We’ll  have  to  stay  here  for  a  couple  of  Julies.
Hey,  where  did  you  go?
It’s  gone,  sand  poured  away.
Let  us  fly  away  as  well.

fields..fields..
ears..
fields..
fields..  poppies..  
fields..
polar  bear

A  polar  bear!

..

Hungry?  Flights  are  exhausting,  aren't  they?  
Well,  let’s  rub  with  the  eye  stuffing

heels                  hair                nails

And  let  them  march  into  the  stomach
To  bring  discord.

Hey,  street  lamp,  you  seem  to  have  as  interlayed  nerves  as  I  got,
Interlayed  over  expectation.

In  the  corners  of  the  mouth  nerves  come  out
And  tie  up  the  tongue.

I’m  silent.
But  still,  we  keep  breathing  out  the  dreams.

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äàòà íàäõîäæåííÿ 30.06.2011
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