Smoking strawberries

asphalt 

u

n

d

e

r

                                 left sandle-shoe

single

1

burning cigarette

i tried to toe-it-out

to faceless voices

unpaying attention

mumbling jokes in

Shell's backyard

(insidepanic

inbetweenreality

thislittlesmoldermay

turntofire

catchingeverythingitoucheson)

the parking lot people

didn't understand

hear

see

the

cigarette

And when i went inside to tell

gas-station workers...

they were eating fresh strawberries

in the backroom

unreachable

untouchable

laughing more

panicking 

r u n

n

n

n

ing back

(toandfrotoandfrom)

'call 911' i shouted

again

g

a

i

n

to laughing unfaces

smoke

turned privacy fence to flames

behind the car wash

and '911'

unreachable

in my hand