EX LOVERS

The dear engineer
searches for God here
through cracks in the rugged-up pavement

No other life dare
to bother compare
in instant and earthly contentment

Here, dignity’s hers
Here, poisonous shares
disperse a collective resentment

of traded-in stock
in destinies fraught
by pills to procrastinate ailment

Her mornings are sweet
Life’s easy to keep -
So long as you practice discernment

She mustn’t look twice
or question a vice
These alleyways spawn violent vermin!

Still, others look down
and spit on her ground,
their shoe-bottoms, gussied-up, turn in

And funny enough
tonight’s sidewalk trough
observes a nostalgic resurgence

An old courted friend!
Once knee-deep in stems
of her yard’s deciduous ferment - 

This man, bearing slacks
now stops in his tracks
to query her bloodied-up segments

“These people, like me,
Know how to be free
So damn it, I shan’t understand it!”

Their gazes don’t meet
and subsequent streets
guarantee eternal estrangement

For each corpus knows
The pleasure they’ve chose
And every day they must defend it

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