The Nighside — Ghosts of the City

The Dead by Billy Collins

The dead are always looking down on us, they say,
while we are putting on our shoes or making a sandwich,
they are looking down through the glass-bottom boats of heaven
as they row themselves slowly through eternity.

They watch the tops of our heads moving below on earth,
and when we lie down in a field or on a couch,
drugged perhaps by the hum of a warm afternoon,
they think we are looking back at them,

which makes them lift their oars and fall silent
and wait, like parents, for us to close our eyes.

Tune in to The Nightside on Sunday, October 27 from 9 pm to midnight as we present words and music of the ghost story “Ghosts of the City” on KUVOJAZZ.

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