Sunday, April 10, 2016

Yellow Brick Road



Yellow Brick Road

Walk the streets of film noir, yellow lighting and doors ajar
Casting shadows even hissing gas I imagine, from time far
Warmth and stealth the combination of night wealth
Rich portrait of a time long ago brought to now

A link with the past reaching to the future
Down on the harbor front a long ago gateway to Damascus
Thru’ the time tunnel up the mountain to ancient stairs
I hear the tapping of intrigue as the spy dares

My domain is in the shadows as the bars beckon
See the people and listen to their languages from time forgotten
I’m a westerner with America in my wake
Alone like the ranger in this strange place that’s God’s sake

I follow this yellow brick road from a story here nobody knows
No gold or treasure to measure but ghosts of those that came to blows
Absinthe or vermouth, the nagila or, the vodka invasion
Always this mix in the Land of King David’s scion

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