Jul 31, 2015

The Sentiments of Last Night

I should’ve written
as the sentiments
were arising.  

Now, I just think of monsters
wandering the streets,
masked as adults,

and each friend in their thirties-
divorced, unhappy, trapped
in marriage, struggling

to find meaning
in career and money
at the same time.  

There is a constant whoosh
of automobiles up and down Cedar Ave,
like a two way river,

incessantly flowing
in conflicting directions.  
There’s this joke

about log trucks
as they pass each other
on the highway

going opposite directions.  
We could’ve saved a lot
of energy

had the ghosts of the past
called ahead
to the unborn

regrets of the future.

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