last scene

[[ Roughly based on a local girl who disappeared forever walking home alone from a night out. There is security video of her walking down the seaside promenade in the very early light just before she vanished. ]]

last seen walking 

home from Friday

home from anger

phone running down

barefoot sidewalk

swinging her shoes

within the sound of 

waves coming down

coming home late like that

barefoot and wobbling

you will be the talk of the town

almost morning 

bathing in strange light

almost daylight

bathing in almost day

what is the color 

of this time? 

this blue hour? 

this golden hour?

stepping through the singing of first birds

stepping through echoes on empty streets

stepping through air, through morning dew, 

wet street lamps, 

wet windows, 

wet shining cars,

stepping through air, through morning dew, 

like nothing could ever

paint by numbers

this life you're given 

is paint-by-numbers

one numbered picture

some numbered paints 

this is the picture 

what is supposed to be

some bright family 

only somebody 

down at the factory 

must have packed for me 

the colors for a picture they called "Storm on the Sea" 

this is the picture 

here are my wife and son 

blue-gray like a gun

this is the picture 

graphite and stone and flint 

day to day living skint

this is the picture 

charcoal and stone 

thunder and shadow

charcoal and stone 

this is the picture 

cartography

[[ looking at a map of a country (any country) with political or social divisions ]]

look at this country

blue is for water

brown is for land

green is for life

the words do not really exist

there are no words

look at 

the red and the blue, 

and the blue and the gray, 

at the black and the white 

at the red and the white,

look at the green and the lines between

look at those islands of all that is new

look at those oceans of old

you could zoom in until 

those colored blocks 

became people

you could go 

virtually there

without going at night

let's not go there

look at this country

blue is for water

brown is for land

green is for life

words do not really exist

there are no words