Friday, July 30, 2021

UNDERPASS


 UNDERPASS

Right across from where 

Donald Trump went to high school

There is an underpass 

Which tries to give you the illusion 

You are entering an underworld

While not exactly a place Hades might hangout

It does have its moments

As you first go down the stairs you are greeted 

By a crumbled pack of Marlboro 100 Lights cigarettes

Broken glass is scattered on the ground

And there is a generous display of trash

Plastic and paper bags like they've been 

There for hundreds of years rest comfortably

Next to a Red Mango yogurt  paper cup leaning on

A container recently prepared by Dagan Catering

Marked: Egg salad sandwich  

               Side salad 

You are also treated to a variety of empty bottles and cans:

Poland Spring water (born in Maine since 1845)

Wine (80% Cabernet Sauvignon 20% Merlot)

Smirnoff Zero Sugar Infusions(Strawberry & Rose)

Evan Williams Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey(Kentucky's 1st Distiller)

Modelo beer

Dole sliced pineapples

Guava nectar

Just to name a few

You don't know who or what you 

Will find as you go through the underpass

The walls of peeling paint scarred by artless graffiti

Make you feel at anytime someone or something

Can sneak up from behind  and grab you

So picking up your pace seems the best option

Funny enough I have walked through many times

But I have actually never seen anyone else there

Just the leftovers 

Of a quite a devilish party I imagine


 



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