SECTION NINE
POETRY PAGE SIX
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COLUMN
FIFTY-THREE, NOVEMBER 1, 2000
(Copyright © 2000 Al Aronowitz)
(Photo by Myles Aronowitz)
(Copyright © 1998 Myles Aronowitz)
TONIGHT
i
will let go of the bars
the inane chatter in my ears
the smoke in my eyes
the mindless pounding music
and the hangovers that follow
tonight
i am at peace with myself
and the world
not the world we have created
to cower inside of
but the world
that is
and
always been
ah
people
like paranoid dogs they bark
from their towers
i can hear them
these hounds of hell
but
i refuse to open the door
tonight
i lay on this bed and write
my confession
while the hunchback circles
the town square
eyes bugged out
clutching his ears
screaming
THE BELLS!!!THE BELLS!!!
i
clutch this pen
as Baudelaire
might have clutched
his mistress
the voice of eaons
ringing
inside my head ##
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