Smoking strawberries
asphalt
u
n
d
e
r
left sandle-shoe
single
1
burning cigarette
i tried to toe-it-outto 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
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