Layaway

Vandal Poem of the Day: January 29, 2021

 by Ricardo Alberto Maldonado

 First, we would give in to disloyalty
 with slack exchanges.

 We were figuring what it might be like to live
 knowing, intimately, conflicts with size.

 Look, my life is not what I would like it to be.
 This year, mornings imply an act of bravery.

 Look, the window displays are changing.
 We could prove what we have yet to dispraise.

 All the males have mated and move on
 in the city’s red gloss.
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