Odessa The Nth Moment

As you watch it comes to you

washing all away…

Yesterday, in the kiosk, the

pipe burning with reason, 

coffee black as the night of day.

The old men didn’t move then.

Smoke occasionally puffed up.

As they watched the flame 

approach from the West, one 

man said…”Ah, here they are 

again, to take us over and 

capture nothing,”