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Nightscapes Part 1
Late night summons madmen, madams, bold streetwalkers, picking pennies from the gutters as the merchants close their shutters and the homeless crouch in doorways in their rags, against the cold. Black or white, no compromise, no colours clothe the empty streets, as Bobbies tread their lonely beats, the watchmen rub their crusted eyes and settle into vigilance, no accident, just circumstance. Midnight passes. Leila in her bursting bodice lingers, guesses who I am and flaunts her body, all the same to her, a customer who'll pay for twenty minutes' satisfaction. Dressed in taffeta and lace she'll never even see my face, night's sweet anonymity, the very definition of her name. Later, as the moonbeams shift, and cloudlines disappear and drift, come images in stark relief of twisted metals magnified that catch the eye, suspend belief. Abandoned building, hollow-eyed and squinting in a death mask grip, skeletal, once filled with pride, now empty, and for ever tongue-tied, cadavered, and condemned to drip. Still later, the street-lamps spot the cats a'creeping worldly-wise, and rats along the quayside waiting, ready for the avalanche of waste into the yawning dumpsters. I have seen the children sneaking out before the dawn comes crawling, dirty little ragamuffins forced into leftover clothes, weepy-eyed and snotty-nosed, playing with a rotting carcass or a broken bicycle. Pre-dawn, and the street-lamp sputters, merchants come to raise their shutters, regard the fading moon, and mutter, 'yet another day!' Begone, O Bride of Midnight, favour us with not another glance, put your spells away, you'll not lead us in our daily dance. Behold a wrinkled substitute, a crone who likes to think that she's a queen; with as much grace as she can muster, she flusters, fidgets, lonely in her room, feathered and be-furbelowed and plays with her decolletage, she's mutton dressed as lamb. The smell of stale tobacco and a whiff of old perfume, no longer with her entourage she dances out of rhythm to the tango, rusty and unconstituted, wraith-like, a phantom in her tomb. ******* ...a tribute to T.S. Eliot's 'Rhapsody On A Windy Night.'
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