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Anthropology of an Alley
Power Aid.
Crack pipes.
pigeon wings
misspelled


55 for LIVE!

(someone was beaten
with a rubber hose back here
and left their bottle of bleach
for dead)

Discarded toiletry

containers, used tampon
applicators

Smells- like rotten tomatoes

and pineapple Jumex.

(this is actually a really

good spot, no wonder
they come here to
get stoned)



(no, they don't. THEY come
back here to smoke crack,
skate & destroy,
fuck love & eat crow)

Then it's all

dirty feathers,
broken glass,
double X's
& too much time
behind Food City.

*written/experienced in collaboration with Lindsey Thomas

 
 
 FRANKIE METRO believes in the countless applications
of basic principles involving equilateral triangles and Serpinski Gaskets.
His book:  The Anarchist's Blac Book of Poetry is now available via Crisis
Chronicles Press.

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