(It’s What Remains That Matters) When the Forsaken City Starts to Burn

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Everyone is yawning.

Mosquitoes love my ankles. 
But nothing hurts.
Worse than time. 

I am annoyed for reasons silly. 
Probably post office and personal procrastination. 
Pots & pans & polaroids. 

2050 is less than 30 years away.
and I have no explanations.

I will build a mailbox.
Propel poems that produce plants.
Along streets of a city I steal. 

The sun’s heat is getting to me.
Even Culver’s cold custard can’t cure.

Too few, too tired.
I don’t play to win.
I play to live. 

The bent alligator flag.
I see it as sweat, scarcely.
With a paintbrush behind my ear.

What remains is what rebuilds.
The end is the beginning.