Chapter 41 Night: Theme and Variations

Night: Theme and Variations Here the roads meet parallel beams of light long and abruptly interrupted conversation Filled with the driver's spicy smoke rough and vague swearing Fences take the place of queues The light that diffuses from the cracks in the door panel Tossed by the roadside with cigarette butts Let your feet trample The billboard leans on the old man's forgotten cane seems to want to move The water lily of the stone withered In the fountain, the building is slowly collapsing the rising moon suddenly struck ring the bell once Awakened the old time in the palace walls

The sundial is spinning, corrected for error Waiting for the grand morning ceremony Brocade ribbons rustle in the wind and stand up dust off the stone steps The tramp's shadow slides across the wall The red, green and green neon lights are shining for him also kept him up all night A stray cat ran onto a bench Looking at the soft smoke-like waves And the mercury lamp unceremoniously opened the curtain Disturbs dreams, wakes the lonely behind a small door There is a hand gently flipping the latch as if pulling the bolt