The Fire Men

i see men raging men crying men in flames capsizing
dusty rodeo men smoky barroom men whiskeyed
singing bucks unbuckling boys becoming wolfmen
shadowmen howling at the moonmen boogey men
boss men yes men hollow men swallowed by offices
houses & wives boyhood dreams buried under bricks
& father's taxes armed men marching men waving flags
lone white gunmen blazing bullets through schoolgirls
holding books beggarmen bone men blown into ghost
men gone men gray flannel men leaping from
buildings raining men lost at sea invisible men wind
in sleeves waving goodbye
& at the end of men is a yellow butterfly of
boyhood
released into sky