the whole scene
they said
stank of gasoline
charred cars
and death
and impassive I
thought then
seeing pictures
like concept art
from ‘the running man’:
for someone who
makes a living
sensationalizing
how other people
make death
you aren’t
very good
at grasping
the poetry
of the thing
you can’t say
gasoline charred
cars and death
like people
will know
just what
death is,
smells like
(gasoline and
charred cars
feels like
(baked stone
streets dust of
city buses
wind of souls