Mood Light

(To be read aloud while the audience softly whistles
"Come to Me My Melancholy Baby")

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[ Mind Map ] [ Mood Light ] [ Moth Bait ]
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[ School Marm ] [ Sky Scene ] [ Snapshot ]
[ Snow Dyeing ] [ Taste Riddle ] [ Typing Class ] [ Vigil ]

When was it
That melancholy neon
Replaced the sparkle of electric light?
When did it happen?
Did electric sparkle die
When melancholy neon came along?
Did marquee bulbs
Grow tired of chasing
When soft
Neon glow
Calmed the night?
Or were the switches flipped to off
When fun turned sad
When flashing light
No longer beckoned
Come to the Cabaret
Was it nineteen twenty-nine?
Or nineteen forty-one
When pensive moods
Made quiet nights.
I cannot quite remember
Nor do I know
When clear radiant lamps
Were turned off one by one.
Electric brilliance sometime ago
Gave way to flickering gasses
Just as incalescent Love
Waned cool to become
A melancholy baby.

Author: D. M. Corgiat
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