Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Tube light


They are white and charged,

Charged like me but inert,

No hormonal discretion or control.

In small villages, children study at night,

It’s a luxurious thing,

Urban – a right to discharge.

How sickly, medicated and calm,

How dingy for someone so bright,

My companion, my friend in arms,

Is a groaning tube light,

Silently twined into the night,

Where the smell of books devours me now.

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