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Bridge

June 3, 2022
By Anonymous

A tunnel runs near the health food store

The view from the airplane seems spotless

A worn coat of moth and mold

Stretches as it encroaches more

Upon the light it cannot have

And has been swiftly snuffed

 

The tunnel near the health food store

is clear or a while

But rot runs deep and its roots

carry the soil

 

The health food store has a second floor

As the mold grows new spores

A quick pass of favored gas

will vanquish a score and fold

those coats back to the underpass

As they are swallowed once more.


The author's comments:

It was inspired by a bridge I pass by on the way to school that is routinely cleared of homeless people, but never stays that way for long.


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