man with the gray hair
observe the pick pocket at work
the hammer comes down
house broken into : awry
draw on your arm hard curves
blueprint for a new house
the maddening crawl
broke a lightbulb and cut himself while the movie ran
in the other room
a board game exceeds its limits
many surprises and life lessons await the arrogant
a country woke up starving
all was left was sugar junk sealed in bright wrappers
she said she was pregnant
he said he was angry
cigarettes put out on your progeny
the convenient store said they were christians
a two-sided coin turned into a six-sided dye
the coin turned into a deck of playing cards
turned into tarot
the cash register rang like the I-Ching
what did your parents do that led you to this?
coughed for a half hour
bathed in a swamp
jumped off into a garden
then a field
brought in the new year
in the dark
fighting with
the fight
he could still see faded tilak
foreheads were wiped clean
he didn’t talk about that
more things to come
to see
new suns
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