The Cities Clock is Losing Face
She slips between the shadow beams,
And with each move
Staccato shrieks reflected off
Metallic tops
As she goes on
This power walk
Strategic as her search for cover
Aims to hide a pretty face…
Pools of dark pour down through trees…
Like rats perpetuate disease
All bars, locked schools, and swollen stores
Have closed the temporal portal where
The mice are trained to run this maze
To snatch a prize from softened hands
Who built the project all to scale
All part of some cruel butcher’s plan…
The shells of business pale behind
As heels go slap with quickened pace…
There are so few upon her trek…
Hot eyes burn through her where she’s seen…
With sense of awe, and naked lust,
But by the time they think to rush
And spill her soft-skinned applecart…
She jumps and dives like there’s a song
That plays to guide her to her truth…
So few can see it; walking aloof…
…Bang into walls affixed to schemes
Always a woman on the scene…
Night Flower fragrant with her sense
Of diving off assembly lines…
The men who thought she could be bought
Are now forsaken by their shrine
That they assumed had just conked out…
By fools with options to foreclose…
But like a bat that won’t stay boxed
She only fits the modeled pose…
All of the rest has been thrown off…
She never leaves a ringing trace!…
Just like ascetics with barbed belts
The cities clock is losing face,
And while she wavers through the dark
Into another haunted park
She finds a loophole in the dusk…
Evaporates with morning dew…
The hands upon the clock has stopped…
The night-tide takes her by the hand…
She slips between the shadow beams,
And with each move
Staccato shrieks reflected off
Metallic tops
As she goes on
This power walk
Strategic as her search for cover
Aims to hide a pretty face…
Pools of dark pour down through trees…
Like rats perpetuate disease
All bars, locked schools, and swollen stores
Have closed the temporal portal where
The mice are trained to run this maze
To snatch a prize from softened hands
Who built the project all to scale
All part of some cruel butcher’s plan…
7/30/25
Bunny Villaire