Chicken Weather 2-5

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Walking up then down
my three-cul-de-sac street,
one in the morning.
I'll never live down
those palm trees.


Sunny-side up
becomes scrambled.
Another meal, single.


Topless, cuddling
a prostitute, topless;
that's all.
He calls it euphoria.


Standing, sitting under the awning
at the old elementary school,
he never attended,
a second cigarette
to wait out the
early, early morning rain.
They watch the numbers,
20 21
grow wetter, wetter.

• Grey yet multicoloured

  by Crowley

  Posted Jan 26, 2010
  +10
  The title threw me a bit but I enjoyed the humorous apathy of this piece, or should I say for pieces. I’d be interested to know why it starts on 2, was simply because you didn’t want to post 1 or is there a deeper reason. It’s great that the simplicity of each section allows such a breadth of int... (read more)

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• Jan 24, 2010 at 6:02 AM
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