Some wait all their lives for the touch
Of a candle in the dark: the blown fuse,
The romantic dinner. I’m sticking around
For something bigger, bolder, something
With noise and color. I will become
The light in your eyes reflected from
The fireworks factory, burning and flashing,
The conflagration celebrating itself
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The “conflagration celebrating itself” would happen in my home town 40 years after I left..! A fireworks factory! We didn’t have those “in the old days”…
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The link is to a story about Southampton England. Strictly speaking it was a store that also sold fireworks.
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What a fantastic poem! Aren’t you clever? The evil in “I’m sticking around for something bigger”!
It was just after dawn so quite a few people filmed it and it is all over YouTube. Here’s one: https://youtu.be/E0-LN7-hy4I
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