> descent

This descent from middle-class 

to a place less brightly lit
long days, narrow streets
bound by bordered brick.

I climb cracked sooted stairs

to a blistered painted flat
audit my bleak view
alleys bordered by dirty
dented dumpsters spilling

loose waste onto vagrant
pools of homeless piss
running gently from crude
boarded doorways where
flies buzz and randomly
feed on aged excrement
and Taco Bell treats of
mostly dry spurted puke

Tired, I untie worn boots
only to wonder whose
used condom has wandered
home on my left sole.

Clicking through channels
sleep finds a still coarse
leading only blank dreams

-dp-

6-28-15

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this descent from middle-class

to a place less brightly lit
long days, narrow streets
bound in bordered brick 


I climb cracked sooted stairs
to a blistered painted flat 
audit my bleak view 

alleys bordered by dirty
dented dumpsters spilling 
loose waste onto vagrant 
pools of homeless piss 
running gently from crude 
boarded doorways where 
flies buzz and randomly
feed on aged excrement 
and taco bell treats of 
mostly dry spurted puke

Tired, I untie worn boots

only to wonder whose
used condom has wandered 
home on my left sole.

Clicking through channels
sleep finds a still coarse

leading only blank dreams

-dp-

6-28-15