Adieu

Adieu great bridge with its horizontals
its arches its walls and its staircases
its iron red-painted and balustrades 
Adieu great bridge that bathes its feet and legs

Adieu to this house with its verticals
its mauve roofing tiles and grey shutters
its radio turned way way up on Sundays
Adieu to this house that I am leaving

Adieu to city life oblique 
its bare paving stones and black asphalt 
its bold outlines its mephitic bones
Adieu city here where memory dies