blather
the_ignoble_ascetic
werewolf smeared in fading thickness
the tire tread
at once distinct and blurring
against the concrete.

commotion in the park
and in the clouds above it
and in the thick swirl
of a nearby factory smoke.

my cigarette spirals its
sitar smoke into helixes.

sirens sing abrupt change
on the auditory horizon.

a drunk sits in shambled
potato sack clothes
no time to unaccumulate
the dirt

and lacks even the coherence
to ask for help or change

which is just when it's most needed.

and one day i will learn,
and i as america will learn -
that unchecked excess approaches
ascetism.
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