A Kiss Under the Bridge of Sighs ...

A legend says that if Venetian lovers in a gondola 

were to kiss while passing under the Bridge of Sighs 

at sunset as the bells of St Mark's Campanile toll, 

they will be granted eternal love and bliss.

I don't know how that story applies to the bridge 

over the Central Canal at Michigan Street, 

but I'm more inclined to believe commuters driving

over the bridge would sigh in resignation

as they approached their cubicle jobs in downtown

Indy. That would be closer to the original story,

that said prisoners would sigh as they crossed the

bridge on their way to prison, knowing that the view

of Venice from the bridge would be their last.

A watercolor painting of the Bridge of Sighs
 by John Singer Sargent, 1904.
The Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York 

The gondolas live under the bridge during the day,

then are available for rides along the Central Canal

during the evenings. I've seen them being poled

the along the Canal and tied outside 

nearby restaurants.