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[wondernthestars]

$13.50

You live in a box
"suburban/urbania"
Pay no mind to the pavement
It's maze of dips and rises
Threatening to take you down

To the feel of your feet
More specifically your ankles
More specifically your joints
snap/crackle/popping in pain with every step
Pay no mind-
You like these shoes

Inside your box there is a bench-
Stoop-
Potted plant-
Monument-
Sit.
Comfortable on the edge
Sit.
Wait.
look down at your fingernails
fleshy, pink, stubs that grown in unevenly
pick, pick, pick away.

Look up long enough- watch the cab pull up
Cabs are many in your box
Walk toward this one
Five feet away from the curb
Crackle. Snap. Pop.
Fall in, against the spongy muted...
Leather?
Sit/lay
Stare ahead
In hunger your stomach churns:

What else..
-turn left
is there?
-right
What if I
-keep going
Stopped
- straight through the light
Went to play in another box?

… Ponder your life with the meter running.