Kurt Luchs Verse-Virtual 2017 August

August 2017

I live in Stevens Point, Wisconsin, where I manage four music radio stations for NRG Media. Lately I have poems published or forthcoming in Fjords Review, The Ibis Head Review, and Phantom Drift, among others. In an alternate universe I founded the literary humor site TheBigJewel.com, have written humor for television (Politically Incorrect and the Late Late Show) and radio (American Comedy Network), and will soon have a humor collection published by Sagging Meniscus Press: It's Funny Until Someone Loses an Eye (Then It's Really Funny). More of my writing, both poetry and humor, can be found at kurtluchs.com.

Walking After Dark

What makes me want to step out of the light?
Why should I prefer the end of the day?
The streets belong to me, so does the night.

Sunrise is crowded, a little too bright
With everyone rushing to go their way.
That makes me want to step out of the light

And into a time that is mine by right
When absence is present and I can say
The streets belong to me, so does the night.

What else do I possess? Myself? Not quite.
Not while there are clocks to punch, bills to pay.
That makes me want to step out of the light.

To walk any other hour is the height
Of folly. Let all be black, not blue or gray.
The streets belong to me, so does the night.

Owning this darkness will never dismay
The one who shuns the sun's last dying ray.
What makes me want to step out of the light?
The streets belong to me, so does the night.

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