"For a dollar I tell your fortune"
barks the harker, soliciting
The tatooed weather worn flesh
of my free verse, nicotine stained
The peeling paint and rusting bolts
of a school picnic tragedy
Once I stalked these fair grounds
to find a fair haired girl, my age
to woo and strain form happiness
titling a fifth of Black label
and a morose smile
of hemp seed teeth
The vers' of philosophy
bent on the repugnant and vile
clinged to my soul like a hall of horror
where the mirrors distorted
the dangling skeleton's laughter
The sizzler of summer sings
a metal tune, of alumumin
and plastic lights color
revolving its lunar cycle
as I stand in line sweating
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