In the Village you get the tang of dead pennies and vinyl spinning on your Bourbon tongue and everything’s ***** Roscoe with the jump kids on Broad Street and the Blacks polishing rimshots off of stars they can’t see. Hubcaps vanish like wallets at a crosswalk- and the rain smells like iron binging Detroit with fume Kabuki as falafels alight upon the caverns of asphalt like a flock of agnostic Finch migrating to the Temple of your Migraine.
She’s gone now and nothing can stop you from becoming a ghost, unless your letters were never written on purpose and your absence was the Plan.
The Jungle is a stainless steel fog of Blown Cover in a war on the Senseless.
You can’t catch a Breath without Catching Hell in the Bargain with a Devil You Know-