The women who avoid prostitution
turn to obesity & children
Ready rock is easier found
than coffee & cigarettes
The men who avoid gangs
turn into fraternal police
Every house has a fence to
keep out everyone else
Pre-teens pan handle at the
gas stations & laundromats
The bearable things are the
air & the water & escape
Is found in the work weeks
& in the imported grass
P. H. Madore is an associate editor at Girls with Insurance. He wrote this poem in 2007 Baltimore and was last published in featherproof's TripleQuick Fiction.
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