Friday, July 28, 2006

Apocalypse, With Bus Stop

A recording plays at the bus stop:

Line 72 to Clackamas Transit Center arrives in 4 minutes

The unrisen sun illuminates empty streets.
Gray sky streaked with yellow.
Trash and ashes scud before the wind.

Line 72 to Clackamas Transit Center arrives in 3 minutes


Half-fallen walls like rotting teeth.

Line 72 to Clackamas Transit Center arrives in 2 minutes


No-one's watching the clock.
The silicon brain ticks on
spinning uneven slices of dead time.
No-one will measure or cut.

Line 72 to Clackamas Transit Center arrives in 1 minute

from nowhere, going nowhere
expected by no-one
flat voice speaking savage absurdities.

Line 72 to Clackamas Transit Center now due
Have a nice day


The world ended yesterday.

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