Pull up the shop shutter, another business day,
Mr. Tanaka stops to rub his back, and gaze
Around at the same surroundings and sights,
Unchanged, verging on rust, in the early haze
Of an unprepossessing morning, soon to
Deliver bumps and lumps in various ways,
Another business day on the dying shopping
Street, greeted by the cries the ravens raise...
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Random Rhymes From An Expat Living A Long Way From Home
Image by Mark Harm Niemeyer
Far Out (By Philip Larkin)
Beyond the bright cartoons
Are darker spaces where
Small cloudy nests of stars
Seem to float on the air.
These have no proper names:
Men out alone at night
Never look up at them
For guidance or delight.
For such evasive dust
Can make so little clear:
Much less is known than not,
More far than near.
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