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Diesel Eddy  

Book three of impromptu trilogy.

  The Evening Light Waiting at a Bus Stop


Listless, droll, waiting for deliverance...   we suspect
certain ideas of regret, renunciation, or intolerance—
inarticulate declarations then found to be null—yet
we opt merely to breathe, as small birds wing

from wire to limb to wire—recent rain puddled as
bountiful amusement then made special by a kindly
surface tension; the light reaching and reaching
farther in thin sheets.  Very little had been revealed

by these assembled souls gathered at a quiet bus stop.
It had taken so, so long to get here that we, sun-worn
and sodden, expected the expected wait to fulfill
the exemplary, the aptly transfiguring; instead, time

wandered ever so slowly by—which we deemed nearly
exquisite—distracted, stilled, little crowds issuing past
	in simple laughter (and cool shoes).



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