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+title: Boy on the bus
+genre: verse
+
+id: boy_bus
+toc: "Boy on the bus"
+
+project:
+    title: Stark Raving
+    class: stark
+    order: 9
+    next:
+    - title: I think it's you (but it's not)
+      link: i-think-its-you
+    - title: Last Bastion
+      link: last-bastion
+    prev:
+    - title: L'appel du vide
+      link: lappel-du-vide
+    - title: Exasperated
+      link: exasperated
+...
+
+| When he said [Bible][] I heard his southern accent
+| and he had a face I expect all pastors must have
+| a round open honest face
+| that will always be a boy's face
+| though its owner may rightly call himself a man
+| near my age though I hardly call myself a man
+
+| I have seen this face before whether in life or a dream
+| I can't tell
+| if I've seen him on the street once
+| twice who knows and his pastor's [moon face][]
+| reminds me of something
+| some distant light my life used to own
+
+| [One night on my birthday the moon was so strong it cast shadows][]
+| I could see to the far hill and back it was all clear to me
+
+| The moon hasn't done that in a long time
+| [its face has been obscured by clouds][] for weeks
+| and that boy on the bus his face I've forgotten
+| I thought I recognized a good number of people
+| on that bus who I didn't know at all
+
+[its face has been obscured by clouds]: moongone.html
+[One night on my birthday the moon was so strong it cast shadows]: in-bed.html
+[moon face]: moon-drowning.html
+[Bible]: mountain.html