8/6/17 1:05am
Give It Up

Electric bubble gum popping
The wires all open ended
Gasoline and sparks
The trains don’t run here
It’s too flammable
Uninhabitable
A Chernobyl wasteland of what used to be “pride.”

Sludgy and thick
Battery acid crackling of ulcers
What you could’ve said
should’ve said
Spilling over
Melting through your plastic suit
The radioactive quarantine of what’s been kept inside.

Clear out the rot to make space
Cut away the decay
And ease the toxicity.