a wide range

a wide range near the cracked sunken graveyard where the homeless sleep under the tombs at night and the traffic swishes by men in proud flannel business suit and with fat jowl are going home in the luxury leatherette smell of their sepulchral volvo to pressure cooker suburbs or fatigue and rugged crowsfeet rubbings and heart attacks at midnight in the middle of the afternoon underneath the flags of all nations and near huge regency department stores faded to rainwash grey just like the big acidic crumbling blackened spaceneedle monument all over in backstreet and college digs geeks are grinning and handsome boys combing back hair like skydivers and skaters and punkers and motorbike boys and pale fat goth girls all surrendered near a flaky pane and a tiled roof wet with pissy rain or bespectacled n smooth haired prowling and yelling with their confréres in a wild college or clapping bigbosomed and eager in a basement dark deacon brodie venue for the international art fools spangling on a stage or gritting their mohican teeths over guitars in leather or rancid jean diving into oblivion thrusting arms of sweat and little alcohol rotten gangs shavenheaded in estates knifing prowled serial killers clenching fists with plots of shallow hole not forgetting the changeling ghosts of a thousand centuries who were drowned here or were strangled with their own rabbie burns cravats in a spectral candlelit drawingroom on a shiny cluedo table and came back in empty afterdinner mirrors at 8 o clock while dickens freaked and hid under the table with pearly moustache and tophat meanwhile big bostonian automobiles rumble past in the street and on hot days festival fools celebrate heroin in a gutter and common lothian disgrace underneath the old burned troy jerusalem miles of paved disgruntled sulking reek respectable downtown in a greenbush on a picture postcard......