Kevin's Watch

Steam Shovel Blues

the Tacoma Narrows
harrows
Baltimore whores
by the score
hobos playing oboes
can flatter the slatterns
echoing down the hall
in a dead-end mall.

the Aurora Borealis
set down in Dallas
a salt box palace
near the Athena Pallas,
for the czar of Panama.

certificate of conformity
minor loss of fidelity
happy is the ocean,
your voice of reason
we drown in the
rain grey town...