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7.17.01  A bucolic scene out my window

A boy stooping 
to scribble 
in the still damp 
float smooth 
sidewalk repair 
out front. 

I prepare a 
GET THE FUCK 
OUT OF MY 
MOTHERFUCKING 
WET CEMENT 
YOU IDIOT 
remark, 
pause to reconsider 
(That’s a remark 
some bitter 
half crazed 
half drunk 
old man rains 
down on 
unsuspecting 
children 
from a broken 
down second story 
haunted house window) 
and 
with the bellowing 
voice of Abraham 
let the remark fly 
on the breeze. 

The lad beats 
feet on one of 
them new fangled 
scooter gizmos 
and 
I smile 
crookedly 
another 
cold beer 
cradled in 
my hand.