i hate livejournals - April 17th, 2009

i wish to withdraw
from this feigned disaster
here and now,
not in the idle there-after.

a song of laughter rings out
from the carillon tower
distributing time
in exchange for more power.

perchance this hour
i shall take to the road
singing to walt whitman
or to the pavement below.

and i do not know
what the city shall say
when i enter alone
and depart the same way.

i know either way
folks home won't know
they just go about business
it is my business to go