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ON THE SOUTH EAST SIDE OF THE CITY
spring sewer air
floats motionless,
asthmatic smokestacks sigh,
front stoop contemplations,
stifling bloodbond
her brother joined the army to become a real man
but returned someone else
want to leave, eh?
old peat falls
off the edge
to the square earth
patches of weed-grass
idle,
a few flowers,
mind cellulite turns
muscle into fat.
row homes,
row jobs,
row lives,
plastic webbing chairs,
yellow and itchy,
rock,
perpetuating the still-life.
Robyrl. Qi.Uc.k
