An elevator
A parking garage
For the beach
Broken glass
Broken birds
Corrugated floor
Smells of smoke
The kind that only
Surrounds the homeless
Smells of blood
The kind that only
Accompany sorrow
Events of the night
Washed clean
By the tide
But not lost
Rather preserved
In a box
Events of a life
Starting strong
Decay into this
But not lost
Rather preserved
Under a shell
Torrents of voices
Existential dream
Unforgiving torment
Cardboard, tarpaulin, Army jacket, Voices, barrel fires, rain, concrete, loose change
Sorting, counting
Making sense
The looks, the looks, the looks
A thousand miles East
Sits in a diner
Scribbling lists
A thousand miles North
Pushes a cart
Collects the discarded
A thousand miles South
Writes number on walls
Stands with signs
Right beside you
Right behind you
Right inside you
And of the vices,
Cause or solution
Provide excuses
And of the illness,
Cause or solution
Goes untreated
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