You
silly suburb
of
eventualities!
Your
derelict streets,
betrayed
bars,
rotten
corners
of
loss and dismay,
ephemeral
memories,
the
escaping smoke
layered
uncomfortably
over
your malls and markets
scream
for justice -
that
was reduced to rubble
like
your love stories.
(First published in Brown Critique: July 2013)
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