Totalitarian antipathy
Between apartment walls.
Shoulder blades stab into the spots,
as Fibromas
stress concrete beauty
My Michelle—smooth dresses, her blazers
And why not a scarf to make more sense?
Sweating her mind away all to pay
Four years endured, landing her here
An old dry briefcase, child her turtle
So scaly with all this working girl strife
To turn the lock and sneeze from the dust
On your blinds makes home
A droll little box
Bachelor pad, Bacardi’s benign
Trucker hat propped on an IKEA chair
Peers closing in to instigate
A shunning, lest he gives up his cash
Sleeping bag sobs, migraines succeeding
Replica—Michelangelo’s fight
For Elysium sprawled ‘cross the skyline wide
All in this face
He’s lost
Fortune cookie sweetheart love
Shriveled by corporate cyanide
Receiving less for striving more
Cheated, never repaid
Youngster much more ragged, tough
Puppy deprived from mother’s milk
The day’s too dark, really thick
Murderous, bitter black coffee
Sand and mud
Blanched forlorn
Like robins in their plight from a gun
Lepers with childhood trinkets eternal
DEAD BY SMILING NIGHTFALL.
