Going Crazy, in Prague

 

Now I will always be on that damned bridge,

Its metal crucifixes and vomit-

Holes of gargoyle stone

 

Where couples stop their tracks

For selfies on their Kafka - paths.

One takes a photo

 

A sad hangdog roping

Two smiling poodles on a stone bridge,

Another

 

Remembering dog-gods black-browed

Gnashing stained teeth

Under furious eyes

 

Snapping at his heels.

At the castle, I was still hoping for your kiss

While the hurdygurdyman

 

Leaned over his coffin and unleashed his notes

To a skein sewn on the flat streetstone.

Gracefully you fluttered a note to his bowl

 

While on the safe lawn of the known

I was hiding within and behind

Knowing enough must always be more

 

Than enough, and more than

I could pay as I heard you say

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