SOMBRE MONTREAL

montreal june 11/ 82 (four days into israeli war in lebanon)

the grey cement
bleakness
of a sombre montreal

lazy repetitiveness
of the nothingness
 
fear of economic displacement
gathers like a polluted
Industrial fog
 
the choking nausea
taken for granted
in the sticky
mystifying mist
 
without the sex starved children
in their twenties thirties wet lipped
sitting at their cafes
the death agony would
be more visible
 
without sport and wars on t.v.
the boredom would kill