---
title: Boy on the bus
genre: verse

project:
    title: Stark Raving
    css: stark
    order: 9
    next:
    - title: I think it's you (but it's not)
      link: i-think-its-you
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      link: last-bastion
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    - title: L'appel du vide
      link: lappel-du-vide
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      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 \
I might'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