Them Under Yellow Streetlight

Look here, a beauty in the streetlight

Charm on lips pointing north, so slight

On this dying, splash yellow'd gravel

It is her again

With a look and a shine that'll never be mine

Sitting passenger side

in the car of another

Closer they stand

Ever closer they stand

With her charm

she stands

in the arms

of another

And I'll walk away from

what I can not stand:

It is her again

now

happily embraced

in the heart of her lover

Excuse me as I

Take the walk around the block alone

Unable to view

Hands tenderly held, hey lady

Dogs playing fuck

Premonition of the intention, hey baby

of the hugging couples present

on this dying street outside my room

drowning in the streetlight

Away from a beauty lit yellow

A gang of fedora'd shadows seen

huddled fiercely in the yellow

taunting through gait to the step,

"Hey it could never be."

Surrounded, outnumbered

by the lack of light in me

to the left and to the right

upways and downways

'tis a slaughter of a fight

they whisper viciously

"Yeaaaaaaaaaaah . . . creep!"

Excuse me as I

Take the blockwalking beating alone

Still unable to view

what can now no longer be deemed "She"

but instead "Them"

Them who by

streetlight, starlight, moonlight

and certainly daylight!

Take upon themselves

a look

and a shine

wholly

Them

On sidewalk block found no escape

So to the sky is sought relief

So it is sighted

To

Connect-the-dots on that Dipper

Grasp it from the midnight

and tank 'im over the head with it

Go hold 'er if you can

with the bruises of 7 stars

But I walk away

Lit by streetlight, starlight, moonlight

And I realize by that point north, though slight

I ought to

Poke the moon

and let its glow pour into the stellar empty

Gone &

Crash the lights by which I

Was thrashed by a gang of my shadow

By which I

Saw your charm in the arms of another

By which I

Thought the things I thought tonight

On that yellow-splashed street, dying