
It’s black and
white outside
A colorless slate
of quiet
Wingless creatures
thud the ground
The air is thick
with melancholy
A dank woe to vagrants
Like me
Soft breeze shifted a form
Out came another umbra
It seeped through sheer sacs
Trampled to bits
by gravity
A leaf funneled from
above
The tree of uncertainty
It is ready to take flight
For it will leave an imprint
To stay longer on earth
Walked on, pressed flat
An arrow in the map of life
Critter’s antennae shaking
Its wide eyes see through steel
A step onto a live red hollow
Of sharp teeth and tongue
Envisage what’s missed
From the bairn of yore
She wolf bayed at the half-moon
Buzzing ants moved a roach’s corpse
A requiem of mass cadence
Like a duet of chainsaws
Hummingbird’s flutter deafening
Blood trickling down echoed loudly
Her muffled screams unheard
Cold asphalt pavement is bed
The steel bars feel hot to touch
Chrome spikes hurt from the paddle
These cuffs abraded against the ulna
Hot, humid weather prickle the back
The rat’s breath of rotting flesh
Burnt embers of paper and wood
Singe uncluttered nose hairs
He hasn’t showered for a month
Ample warning to those relieving
Stay away from corners full of
Effluvia, urine and dried scat
An open garbage bin reeked of
Days old food… A buffet, sort of
I know fresh from decaying
Poisoned to vegan
Shelter food comes with rules
It only applies when desperate
Coins trickle below
Car exhausts rancid gas
Soft and sticky hot dog bun
Stubby condense meat all snarfed
Sitting on a corner to pass time
Energized by human frailty
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