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A passing siren
abbreviates panic,
removes me from thinking’s
constant throb. Yellowjackets
carve a circular blur
around a soda can
standing in
pissed-on woodchips.
Nostalgia wanes
when it’s this hot, when speech
contracts to half a breath
behind a word that won’t come.
So humid
even the concrete wilts.
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