Citizenship as a Plural and Individual Concept

Gone with my face
Receipts for things purchased
Cards of random depth and interest
Face of a friend
Saved breakdown of purchases
Personal business
The ability to ride trains freely
Henry David Thoreau consistently mocking me

My terrible temper
Ulcering

My fragile intellect
Drinks battery acid
Contemplates boat shoes
Blames father, mother
free pornography, the internet
Covets coffee
Accepts donations of wine
Allows trains to be special
and mundane at the same time
Writes in bad cursive
Tells hand it's a surgeon's
Reminisces about quality thrift stores
Barely remembers
moments, sex, conversations, items
But seems to get by

In spite of
These tragic handicaps

Finds solace in food
A secret pleasure
(in) the ability to keep weight off
Elitist, judgmental, phony
Dying, sad, tragic
Doing best despite
What could be
Done better
Always looming
Overhead in thought bubble
What a psychic once said
In a super market
Makes cheese of us all
Falling sideways
Rolling to the curb
There is evidence there
Of other lives
We despise
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9.7.12