A penny broke the surface and liberated a hundred
thousand tiny perfect bubbles
oxidized
and cracked the concrete base,
draining into catacombs a torrent of off-color
crashing swelling past the tombs of rememberd heroes
in street names and memorial bridges
(Goddammit it's always bridges with you.)
among interred and to my surprise a Civil War general
stole a statue from a local park demolished for a
community swimming-pool the color of chlorine
and where the sun always shines from an angle forty-
five degrees from horizon
onto
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