I pick up my pieces

like a fussy beggar

examining the gutter

for specific butts

(not too short

ah just a filter left)


and all of this

to assemble myself

just so I can tumble

on down to the corner

loiter at the end of the block

and stare across the street


at the opposite sidewalk

as though it were a new world




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