November Poem: Temporary Bind

I was reading some Lawrence Ferlinghetti poems when I wrote this  ... it shows (but I don't think he has ever written in hay(na)ku form).

A Tower Books
bookmark? Boy!
That
 
goes back quite
a way --
along 

with all the 
other landmarks
no 

longer with us 
including Tower
Records, 

Tower of Shoes 
and the
Twin 

Towers.  Nothing lasts 
it seems
not 

even the Sphinx 
whose face
is 

slowly being erased.
Even this
room 

will be gone 
someday certainly
but

I won't be 
around to
see 

that or at 
least I
hope 

not. Too much 
has disappeared
already 

and it kind of
makes you 
wonder 

but not really 
for very 
long.

© Bob Loomis
09-26-2012