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really very tall street curbs(made him think a
person could commit suicide jump to
their death from on top them)
slabs of hewed granite
laid on their sides
in-between occasionally
filled by formed lengths of poured
lime concrete
walking past a section at their toes
he found several round castoff
red grapes
a wastrel he assumed
or dropped and they were just too damn lazy to bend over pick em up
brush em off and eat em
so he did
so he did
and laying in the afternoon sun they exploded
hot in his mouth
it is a lost boulevard that had seen more than it could
say
it stretched long and out
under the ironshoes of dray horses pulling the flinty woodspoke wheels of wagons laden
with product and produce or stacked with familial effects under the implacable rubber tread of Model T
and Model A Fords and the impatient scuffed leathersoles of parade walkers solitary streetwalkers compelled by coin or pleasure and the impotent steps and gaze of elderly widows and
widowers walking there to remember
a forlorn boulevard
a forlorn boulevard
its appealing and picturesque
Mall split into parcels
disjointed by the Bureau of Highways as a contingency to improve the US Numbered Highway System US Route 101
disjointed by the Bureau of Highways as a contingency to improve the US Numbered Highway System US Route 101
not as a matter of agreement
the village was informed
and as many things are done for
the benefit(or tyranny) of the majority the
Mall fell and exists now only in a bygone era recorded on black and white
photographs the fading black and white memories of the Aged
either growing more chic with
every passing day
the Bureau too is gone
but Then like Samson
longhaired drunken without iron shackles or an asss jawbone flexing its muscles and tearing asunder the hamlets provincial color and character limb from limb for proverbial shits and giggles
longhaired drunken without iron shackles or an asss jawbone flexing its muscles and tearing asunder the hamlets provincial color and character limb from limb for proverbial shits and giggles
PROTEST?!
it would have stepped barefooted on their
faces leaned forward tensed and crushed their skulls eyeballsejectinglikeexclamationpoints popped
their fatten grey brains
hot grape ooze
slipping along the
tall tall curbs on the Malls gutters to make either the irongrate sewer mouths or lapped by wolfish leashed hounds or gulped and gargled by kawing blackbirds ruffled raucous and brighteyed
brighteyed
brighteyedly blighted
blighted by the consciencelessness the righteousness of tall tall bitter Progress
blighted by the consciencelessness the righteousness of tall tall bitter Progress
conceived
1240, Twosday, 25 8. 15
cobbled 1658, Sunday, 30 8. 15
played at 1005, Monday, 31 8. 15
completed 1331, AndrewMonday, 31 8. 15
cobbled 1658, Sunday, 30 8. 15
played at 1005, Monday, 31 8. 15
completed 1331, AndrewMonday, 31 8. 15
