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Trampled

Drew Brashaw

The day they poured the sidewalk
in front of my shop down on Euclid,
some kid took a stick and scratched the words
“FUCK YOU”
into the setting cement.
City Hall sent some boys to fix it after a few days,
but everybody on the block saw it. For a few days,
the sidewalk had a voice.
And what else should a sidewalk say?
Uncelebrated, unrenowned
in its flawless geometry,
its perfect scaling of area and volume
unnoticed year after year,
a toilet for dog and man.
Now it circles the block silently,
like an old convict
pacing the perimeter of a prison wall.

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