Night Shine

Night falls in showers of neon, and the blacktops spark electric. The town takes to its cars and pulls into fast food joints. People just sits there in the lots smoking and razing or just crying quietly and alone. Other's gather in backyards to drink; In the lulls between the talk-talk they tune-in to the distant scuffle of criminal minds getting chased around by sweating cops in their buzzing blues. When the summer night seeps into our skin it sings a thousand sad songs, a velvety shine heals lonely hearts and the joyful. The liquor stores glow bright long into the sleepless night because we need them even when we don’t need them, but we like the way they carry folks in and out of their fitful dreams like cups of cool water.