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Adderall junkie
begs twenty cents for beer money
blind man shakes his head
☯
He struggles to sleep
his bedroom, library lawn
power washer’s drone
☯
The sky, like a pie
thin criss-crossed stretches of cloud
leaving diamond sunbreaks
☯
Spitting up whiskey
on no particular date
Ha! Folly soon gone
☯
Two hands come around
delivering the parcel
leave no fingerprints
☯
Sixteen hours straight work
have I ever earned the sleep
which surely follows…?
☯
I’ll toss this heater
the day it starts that shrieking
and won’t be silenced
☯
66 driver
red light, reading glasses on
to check his schedule
☯
Busman warns lady
“This ain’t my first rodeo”
she scuttles to pass
☯
Beggar, 3rd and Pike
I watch through the window as
lips circle to “no”
☯
High-waters, showing
skinny ankles, pigeon toes
library’s closing
☯
At Convention Place
one lady wears a clown nose
her friend nods along
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Queen Anne unicorn
in a slate football jersey
hugging his groupies
☯
Collated dew drops
too heavy together for
one spider web strand
☯
I write tonight for
children I shall never have…
the bus was on time
☯
Skeleton girl, bored
crunching fresh carrots across
from the bus station
☯
Mummy girl adjusts
one eldritch bandage, to
peek at her cell phone
