creatures at night
in this dark city place
are luminescent, scarce,
hiding, and luminescent,
skittering, creepy-crawling,
luminescent wildebeests!

i would try to topple your towers,
but they are stacked too high
against me and any light or heat
i could possibly offer
the squareness is jagged, jutting,
lights are blocky again at night
and shining coldly against us
when all you can see is a bright red
but dimly fading 
circle.

try me again, try me
i will try not to topple
from sheer terror of withstanding
this nighttime alone;
i will try to be unpanicked
and clean,
and i'll place miniature suns in my eyes,
and the daytime will always be mine,
stacked, and steady, and strong
my tower against the weight of the world
and i DARE you, Rest Of The World,
i just DARE you.



bronnie


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