with the last rub


nocturnal notes
on the night-shift
reading Baxter

the anger
of a sympathetic
heart

but anger alone
won’t bleach
walls

won’t shift
scum, grease
& dirt

hardwork & time
might see the wall
fresh

or see it crumble
with the last rub.

I think he knew
that.


Published in Side Stream #24, May 2010.