A Few More Hours of Sunlight
We drink beer in your kitchen
and talk of the lives of dead poets
while outside the window
is the September sun
and beneath it the city streets
and the people who carry their lives
like corpses on their backs.
They wait for buses and taxis,
they wait for their tiny phones to ring
and all the lights to finally turn green
as if they truly believed
things had some interest in being done.
Ambition is for
the ambitious
and I will leave them to it.
If history's to be believed
we'll all end up badly one day,
and what of it?
We've another bottle in the fridge
and a few more hours of sunlight.
William Taylor Jr. lives and writes in the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco. His poems and stories have been widely published in the independent press in numerous publications including Poesy, The Chiron Review and The New York Quarterly. His latest collection of poetry, The Hunger Season, was released by Sunnyoutside in 2009. An Age of Monsters, a collection of short fiction, is in the works from Epic Rites Press.
We drink beer in your kitchen
and talk of the lives of dead poets
while outside the window
is the September sun
and beneath it the city streets
and the people who carry their lives
like corpses on their backs.
They wait for buses and taxis,
they wait for their tiny phones to ring
and all the lights to finally turn green
as if they truly believed
things had some interest in being done.
Ambition is for
the ambitious
and I will leave them to it.
If history's to be believed
we'll all end up badly one day,
and what of it?
We've another bottle in the fridge
and a few more hours of sunlight.
William Taylor Jr. lives and writes in the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco. His poems and stories have been widely published in the independent press in numerous publications including Poesy, The Chiron Review and The New York Quarterly. His latest collection of poetry, The Hunger Season, was released by Sunnyoutside in 2009. An Age of Monsters, a collection of short fiction, is in the works from Epic Rites Press.
