GENERATIONS Copyright (C) 1997 by Not Nice Music
II. A COLLECTION OF OBSCURITY by Edwin M. Drogin

37. Untitled

The rain has a purpose on wide streets.
It clears them for the posts.
It is empty and slick and the few who walk aid that.
It is wet and glistening
And at night
	Dark, and quiet, and the wideness is a stamp of promised
civilization... held back by the thin, weak, constraint
of a freak time
And an uncivilized elemental outburst.
Childish in its enthusiasm
Childish in its briefness.
A poet's child.
	No women walk, wide, wet, streets.
The stores are closed. No way has been figured
to do away with totalitarian time.
It is free to conspire with the revolt of rain.
Wanted on the prairies-with purpose on wide streets.