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

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