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skate park confessional

September 10, 2013
By Holly T. BRONZE, Lenoir City, Tennessee
Holly T. BRONZE, Lenoir City, Tennessee
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Addled rattled crunched smoked

Broken stoned faltered tamped

Sundown uptown, they're downtown they're

High in the skate park

They're dusting up their hearts to hearts

They're breathing the smoke of their daddies, their girlfriends

Hissing poison through their nicotine teeth

Lotus dreams kept them tied to the end

Of the world, downtown, where razors and lighters write the language of burnouts on their arms

Downtown, folded clamored clamped

They're bound by new bodies from the open factories of theirs, new animals bulky inside the glass bones of girls dewy

Clutching, they're clutching

Each other in the thrumming dark

Dusting up their hearts to hearts

The vomit they're laughing to pour from the ruins of themselves into, behind trees

They're ancient

They have the eyes, the cheekbones, the teeth of the animals before them

The future left in paw prints through grass and tar

And they bare those teeth

Slouch downtown to breed their sickness


jesus.
they're just little kids


The author's comments:
This is only a poem written about the tangle of a small, anxious town.

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