Janus
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- Janus
- The night before New Year
you went on ahead,
but when I crossed over
you went back instead...
Namesake waited for the new year
to get lucky
while Signal pulsed
as the ball came down
oh yes oh god this Is
the coming year
Riverbob would not wait and after
watched contentedly as in
came the new year flowing.
Prayerful wanted a second coming,
Flavia wanted a second helping,
Mysterical wanted it all
the time, repeatedly sated,
never enough but
damn that felt good
lasting as long as
a resolution.
Romanticide pined for Mysterite
alone in a roomful of minutes,
too glum to realize that
had the right one shown
it would have felt all wrong:
new years would arrive
no matter what, and life would go on
no matter how badly she wanted to start over
And Jackthezipper took himself in hand
and after he exploded, told the new year
that he had it coming
And a couple of once upon a could be friends
clinked drinks at midnight, wondering
but wary of the new year
And 13 blackbirds singing in the dead
sang to life perched fretfully
on a Fender bumping into
auld or new acquaintance come to grind
And a solitary scribe,
marking time, gamed by rules,
tried to write what he meant,
plucked a memory,
dreamt a friend,
rested easy as
the old year passed
into the new,
the new slipped
into the old
and the fog of their fantasies
resolved
into now.
Poem copyrighted © 2009, Steve Wax. All rights reserved.
