the beautiful young girl walking past the graveyard--

I stop my car at the signal

I see her walking past the graveyard--

as she walks past the iron fence

I can see through the iron fence

and I see the headstones

and the green lawn.

her body moves in front of the iron fence

the headstones do not move.

I think,

doesn't anybody else see this?

I think,

does she see those headstones?

if she does

she has wisdom that I don't have

for she appears to ignore them.

her body moving in its

magic fluid

and her long hair is lighted

by the 3 p.m. sun.

the signal changes

she crosses the street to the west

I drive west.

I drive my car down to the ocean

get out

and run up and down

in front of the sea for 35 minutes

seeing people here and there

with eyes and ears and toes

and various other parts.

nobody seems to care.