Saturday, February 11, 2012

Self-Portrait as Hawthorne (draft 2)

                        This heaven gives me migraine.
                                                - Gang of Four

           
            Faint sounds of bygone summers
            linger through suburban avenues. Hotrods
            cruised on Friday nights full of kids
            looking for something to do. Football games,
            dances & hamburger stands would often suffice.

            Brian found his voice here. Marilyn,
            another starstruck girl in the city light’s
            shadow, was called Norma then.
            Memory, a misty mizzle, evaporating
            under the warmth of the sun.

            Discount stores choke the boulevard
            where families flocked to after Sunday
            services. A plane takes off from the runway
            of the municipal airport. It gains altitude,
            flies over the city and towards the sea.
            

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