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Digging for Gold

Digging for gold in the blackest night
While all around me, framed in the windows overlooking the courtyard,
Murder leaps out the jaws of a hungry lion,
To devour dead man sitting, with a knife in the forehead,
Hammered against the kitchen tiles.
A boy bites down on a rare gold doubloon,
Smiling to know the taste of wealth,
And factories lean crazily at angles over dripping alleyways As I examine a stain on the map.
“It’s here! It’s here!” yells an old man, Leaning crazily on a shovel

Over what he believes is a buried treasure ripe for the plucking.
But I don’t know,
Perhaps we have simply mixed our coordinates,
With strange frequencies beamed in over the mental wireless
That brought us to this mound of earth to start with.
Dying babies howl in the steam whistle of a locomotive,
Suffering lost in the pathetic cries and grinding crunch of train track chomp
As the night plays out its final shuddering gasps.
Doorways lead to nowhere,
But not quite to evidence Of a brutality that was exhibited
On the body of a victim
By a fat woman with a crust of sandwich
Chomped in her jaws.
And I am alone under street lamps / That are coming down around me in pools of white
As bugs circle crazily zigzagging under the bright canopy
Of electric wave.
And a wind from somewhere plays down the street

And I feel a cold chill of purpose
And I realize that, despite the treasure under my heels,
I am poor and alone.
Somewhere, an organ grinds...

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from Curtains: Readings from Molotov by Tom Baker, released November 9, 2019

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