monster truck in the handicapped spot arm blown off by illegal fireworks Starbucks went McDonald’s McDonald’s went country pride no heroin for 5 years a gas station with an order kiosk big juicy hamburgers nobody touches America when i say that i’ll be alone there is a deafening silence because i threw a pitch with no one there to catch it empty parking lots to pray in empty storefronts to curse at blurred out skylines that look like a reckoning she remembers me and wags like a dog she’s gonna play the lotto like she always does kiss me on the forehead, then the face working and working i’m not all that different than men coming and going make me feel special though don’t use your teeth