boubakiki

There's a problem in America. 
The problem is those black or dark 
gray things you see littered or strewn 
on sidewalks, by curbs, or just over 
the curb in the street. 

What are those things. 

They're little teeny tiny and 
some of them if you close-inspect 
run to spiky, others far more round 
and bumpy bulbous. They appear 

to be just 

shapes of some kind, nonliving 
- where do they come from? Some 
by-product, side effect? Do others 
see them? I ask surreptitiously but 
they do not answer. Do they answer
others? Who would put them there 

and not tell why? Is it part of the 
natural world, or another quirk 
or consequence of artifice? It's 

even possible it's not a problem. 

If 
there's no solution, 
it's not a problem.
Just another feature
of reality