THE HERMIT EMERGES: PILGRIMAGE

surrounded at the food court
by schoolboy rowdies, babies in strollers
damaged children from a private school
eating their pizza and smiling
workmen at the next table jovial, loud

loud humanity full of electric life

I read Baudelaire from the bargain bin
shocked by the words, the charge of them

Mon Dieu, I was too young at 20
to understand this
but now...

electric life
words of fire
the world is poetry 

2/8/02
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