BATMAN MOON

So the insomniac was just on the deck havin' a smoke. It's almost One AM. This night is cool and crisp with more Autumn in the temperature than I'm used to yet. I'm not complaining. It feels good out there. It seems clear but it's very dark. The winds right now are kind of low down here on the ground, but the sky above told a different story...the winds are fast about a mile up. I looked up at the moon and caught it just as it peaked out of a cluster of dark swirling clouds, but then it disappeared. Then it poked out again and I saw it shining through a black and gray smokey cloud that seemed to be curling around the moon itself. I heard the leaves in the trees bristle in the wind and I noticed I was shivering just a bit. And the orange glow of my cigarette seemed to breathe hard and shine brighter in my fingertips. I took a mouthful of my Budweiser and hit the smoke one last time before I crushed it out. I looked up for the moon one more time while the cigarette smoke blew out of my mouth in a rush and just disappeared into the night winds. This time the moon was nowhere to be seen. But the pale haze that emitted from behind the curling clouds made me think of the beginning of a Batman movie. The colors in the sky were all of the blue-black family and they were all intertwining with each other, and i thought of those mixed colored marbles, kind of like an ice cream swirl, that we all had as kids. And I said aloud, to myself, "Batman Moon". I'm going out again for one more smoke, and one more look. I won't be surprised at all if I see the Bat Signal shining on the clouds. And I'll wonder what fresh hell Commissioner Gordon has come into, with no other choice readily available to him, than to summon the Dark Knight. And then I'll try to sleep. Goodnight Batman Moon...