Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Free Verse: Man in the Alley in Amsterdam



A channel of brick—a flume
of brick hailing wisps of exhaust
from pipe veins, lackluster light, silent coolness.

His pocket bulged, his wallet tearing,
though he accosted another man.

Blackout.

The war in his head: his awakening,
a void in pocket, a note in the other.

“Your ID is at the police station.
A word to the wise:
Don’t fuck an American.
He will take your money,
your livelihood, your freedom,
and be justified in doing so,
and in doing so, be justified."

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