06 February 2008

i'm not sure where this is going, but it's a poem

The city is dripping—
> > half-frozen sludge raining down into the bowels of a metropolis,
> > the loudest sound above the
> >>>>racket of injustice overhead,
> >>>>busybodies speeding past who never bother to look at their feet.
She’s five months pregnant
> >on the streets and can’t believe that I at 19 have never had no babies
> >>>>Her name is Shannon.

Genderless huddles of scarves like stale bread—
It’s because the devil gets lonely in hell.

The city is dripping
Ugly poetry on deaf ears.

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