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

49. Untitled

To seek and not to find
A weary stumbling of an urban mind.
The sleek and grass sown tiny range
So mowed and footed yet mildly strange.

A clock and rooms pierced to catch the light
With shades as feeble walls to night.
The wind and rain snug barrier to dawn
Surrounded by a moat of lawn.

Reached, hemmed, and taunted by twin steel bars
Capturing and guiding the shuttling cattle cars.
Too new yet for pride in great shadowing trees
The remnants of forest attempting to please.

Too old for the earth to yield to bare toes,
The civilized grass and the concrete enclose.
And the thin metal sinews and the ribbons of tar
Ascertain that the rest of the world is not far.