I must begin
Draw curtain after curtain yet these particles get in
The brake light snake has parted for another broken-hearted nomad
Lost before he started, no matter when


A lovers on the road
Lover in the rain where the white eyes wink past
Peppered on the road
The meanders of the drain
All the long times, short times
And the light was off
And the light was on
And I watched you power down
And then there was no light
And I was back inside
And I felt the ageing


Oh
It's coming through the walls
From the next room


It has never been my view
Only to elicit pain it keeps its changing
And yet I don't die, just sit back a way
(And I know, in the next room, all the ends are tied
every passing slide)


And
I am at the moment of watching your light go


I trace it. You rise out. A pattern all scrambled up
And now you're an echo, rerunning insensibly slow
Re-passing time
Re-passing all of your actions, all your infractions
A one howl elegy


And I watch you power down
Ricochet between sins and virtues
Keeping count in the next room