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vigilante park -- by Ross Robbins (Free verse) by achingwish
dangerously close to the edge
again today--
or yesterday, rather,
it's 3:30 pitch dark.
that same old gutless yet gutsy face on
lookin into junky's eyes
with a pleading puppy dog wish
in my own.
seemed to offer
(so I thought)
a promise for later I took for myself--
never really happened at all.
so I fell back on caffeine
merry-go-round giggles
ecstatic back-to-youth
spins cartwheels and smiles--
and ended on my back,
laughing at my own silly ways,
midnight--smoking my cigarettes,
junky's eyes off my mind just then--
for a moment, not quite so close to the edge.
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