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                         A Sanitary Pad Along Beer Can Road

                       To walk abroad, and recreate yourselves

                                        -Julius Caesar III.ii.256

A sanitary pad along Beer Can Road
Sodden and heavy with the waning night’s damp
And beer cans shining in the morning sun
Completing a picture of misadventure

I once found a ratchet wrench about here
And a knot of twist-ties further along
And a couple of disposable lighters for toking crack
I’ll just give this latest detritus a miss

But on my morning stroll I won’t pass by
Without a prayer for happiness for all

Especially my nocturnal predecessors