30 May 2007 | Vol. 7, No. 1
Act Six
Success is never final.
– fortune cookie
On days you simply want
for something to go right
or well, there's no view arresting
enough to shake you
by the shoulders or hold
your hands until you wake.
The town goes on meanwhile,
its hundred thousand
languages opening like
flowers on another continent.
Only the sky's unbroken,