"Everything about you,
My life, is both
Make-believe and real.
We are a couple
Working the night shift
In a bomb factory. ...
One can hear the fire engine
In the distance,
But not the cries for help,

Just the silence
Growing deeper
At the sight of a small child
Leaping out of a window
With its nightclothes on fire."

-----Charles Simic, "Listen"