Allusive Issues Adressed

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This city has failed to deliver brotherhood tonight,

for the first time once again.



In front of caramel-scented cinemas


popcorn attached indigo flannels



wavering neon gas, erring electrons


I am awash with:

dash-lined due dates

nebulous instructions to success

the cottony touch of a pink dress to scraped knees


and father-demanded showers.



and successive limousines rides-


by drivers torn and worn




But I can never grow any more than a semicolon can finish a sentence;


and you can never forget



the trembling tables, tablets of medicine, unspoken taboos


issued by the woman with the wrinkles: mom, mum, momma, mummy-

for she taught you the alphabets, ironed them on your plaid shirts,


in continuity tranquilizes you-


for a reality has been bought and this was its verse:



they don't mean to, but they do.