© Sean Donovan 2000
New Jerusalem
In the city of a night
there's a rainbow
and it glitters
on a hazy street-life.
All the actors
on a rain-weathered street-stage
Make their entrance from a low-swept doorway.
Take me back
New Jerusalem.
Take me back
to the roots of them.
Shuffle aimlessly between the ends of day.
Lifeless Romeo
face down on the pavement.
Leaves that settle
on his dust-covered raincoat.
Cries of merry
from the darkness are sounding.
Pallid Fallstaff
leads the chorus downward.
Take me back
New Jerusalem.
Take me back
to the roots of them.
Shuffle aimlessly between the ends of day.
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