---
title: Worse looking over
genre: verse

id: worse-looking-over
toc: "Worse looking over"

project:
    title: Stark Raving
    class: 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