Tenderloin Blues
Nighttime city buses,
passengers bathed in
fluorescent gloom
sit silent,
every corner and crack illuminated,
no one casting a shadow--like the undead
prowling an ancient Carpathian castle.
There were two worlds--worlds apart--
the stark,
bright realism
of the interior
and the impressionist outside
where colored lights
bore through the darkness,
smearing and dripping,
splotching and streaming
onto a dynamic canvas of night.
The bus stops
to take on more sad ghosts.
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | ABCDEDFGHIJKLMNNOPQ |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 450 |
Words | 71 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 19 |
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