Louisville

The city darkling will not show its lies
But shrouds them in an absence of the light;
A city where a dollar sometimes buys
More than enough to sink you out of sight
Hastens the process, dousing every fire,
Letting the moon and stars alone be guides
Leaving the only flame a heart's desire
From which the truth of things too often hides.
Each house a castle inwardly is lit
But shadows its illumination out
Within which half-seen visions darkly flit
Leaving the very view of them in doubt
So all is dark; each island lit refuses
The common good, so evil always oozes.