Transparent Words - Poetry
Jones beat On Jones street Drop a quarter See a girl Clad in sneakers ............Bruises .........................Scars Baby in back butcher room foodless. Kids swing on chains In sad sandbox playgrounds Ruined by the madness of the times Playing in the mounds Where junkies roam Shoot for the heavens Escaping their hell Hide their needles in The lostness of themselves. Jones beat On Jones street Pills the prince Horse the king Crack the holy Ghost dripping fleshing hanging Slide through filthy tracked hands Time done Life undone Pull the covers ..........Pull the shades .....................Then the final white sheet Siren blows Rain falls black sludge face down in sewer grate. Jones beat On Jones street Join the army See the world Or stay with comrades lost To the optionless tide Pools of the streets of your youth Minds and souls Jonesing ...............Frying.
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