---
title: Worse looking over
genre: verse

project:
    title: Stark Raving
    css: stark
    order: 4
    next:
    - title: The Sixteenth Chapel
      link: sixteenth-chapel
    - title: Something about the nature of poetry and time
      link: poetry-time
    prev:
    - title: Love as God
      link: love-as-god
    - title: The moon is drowning
      link: moon-drowning
...

[The radio is screaming the man][] \
on the radio will not be quiet he is \
pushed far into the background \
while some NPR talkers murmur over \
his screaming he lost something \
very important.  He says it over \
and over but they do not listen \
they think of their children at home \
lying [in bed][] dreaming sweet \
childhood one of them is staying over \
at a friend's house they are staying \
up late they never want it to be over \
not like the man.  His life on the radio \
will be the only one he ever has \
his life it is wasted he's being spoken over \
such pain is in his voice.  I wish you \
could hear it.  [It's something never over][].  \
Suffering everywhere always and over it \
the same serene murmur of the comfortable \
distracted or worse looking over \
the [shoulder][] and quietly looking away.

[The radio is screaming the man]: moon-drowning.html
[in bed]: in-bed.html
[It's something never over]: nothing-is-ever-over.html
[shoulder]: last-passenger.html