the punishment again

People who eat shit
mid-trip
back from the corner deli, which
has the best damn sandwiches
in the world, strewn and scattered
from here to the curb
as your palm heels redden
in cross-hatched drip,
and your elbow throbs
like it wants to give
birth - people like that
are pathetic. The worst.
Should have watched their step

not ruined everything!
So happy one moment!
Skip-strutting along
with proud bag bearing food
of true beautiful worth

People like that
make everything hurt

In a fury of helpless
and
just deserts

Deserted
oh why, have you really oh
abandoned us? To this
godforsaken stretch
of concrete? Where things

like this

can happen so sweet, so slick
it's like a trap sprung
right or wrong
at our feet

the world only makes sense
in moments like this.
It drives home the cost
of how cool drooly beautiful
everything,
sometimes,

is.