The old man with the book smiles,
The dog rolls up into itself in the rain,
The curtains flutter,
Lovers kiss.
The rain falls in many colours
Over the fading flower they forgot to take
When they moved house.
The wind plays jazz to make the still lake dance.
The mist hugs the hills,
And swans embrace a heart between them.
The neon bounces
And the jazz goes on in the bar below;
Red seats around a blue table where the bartender serves,
Listening to the buoyant ramblings of drunk old men,
And the dry sobbing of the drunk young.
The bartender is the ultimate magnifying glass
Of human melancholia.
But it does not remain sad for long.
For
The old man with the book smiles,
The dog rolls up into itself in the rain,
The curtains flutter,
Lovers kiss.
Isn’t it pretty?
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