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two eyes

[two eyes]

one eye, empty parking lot, ravaging birds scrambling for crumbs at the deserted, robbed grocery store

two eye, home


one eye, vile trash-can, filled with now-mushed, last week’s rotten pot-roast, scented with a bag of crooked fish bones

two eye, food


one eye, ragged clothes, more holes than wool, different colors at every section, stains everywhere, nothing to give

two eye, warmth


one eye, gang-run streets, murderers and strays, gunshots, fistfights, naive police officers, another tragedy on the news

two eye, family


one eye, scraggy man, alone in an empty parking lot, scraping remains from a flipped-over trash-can, worn-out rug over body

two eye, me


one eye, shedding the noises of a fight from the child, bullets ricocheting, screams of terror, a sea of voices flood a dying gasp

two eye, life


-Jeffrey Yang

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Sebastian Nunez
Sebastian Nunez
Jan 07, 2020

bye!

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Sebastian Nunez
Sebastian Nunez
Jan 07, 2020

hi!

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