Before that I thought I was just another waking asphalt animal perched on his shaky brick-limb trying to do what it is that rats do to stay alive.
The rats are the true underground.
Hamptons in Harlem.
Condos creeping.
My belly is torn asunder.
They’ve pulled apart the letters of alphabet city.
Don’t mind me–it’s just my feet are getting wet and I never realized I could swim. The Mets are Citibank pets in steel cages.
Plastic surgeons from the west coast have brought their palm trees with them, they’ll be importing the rest of the emptiness later.
They’re sending me to the outbacks, the caves in the dunes where books meet man and clean hands are an ideal to achieve.
Losers
Like Loners
Make the
Best
Lovers.
They have so much to give.
They don’t need me here. Give me my apocalypse and ship me out soon.
I am not sure how long I can carry this battery.
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originally published in the Lower East Side BOOG City poetry journal, Summer 2012
& included in the chapbook “Lying Meat”
Dennis Leroy Kangalee 