Eyes that are huge sweat drops

Unheeded by the struggle underneath them—

Throughout the night you stagger under walls

Where life is squeezed to squealing bitterness.

Beneath your heaving flash of limbs

Your thoughts are smashed to a dejected trance

And you are swept, like empty mites,

Into a glistening frenzy of motion....

Yet, on a Sunday afternoon

I have seen you straightening your backs with slow smiles;