I spent a significant portion of my childhood in Los Angeles, and as a ward of the Los Angeles Juvenile Courts. Perhaps it’s a good place to be from, but it is no place to live.
Los Angeles
concrete blight on barren land…
sometimes i dream of you…
i see the earth
crack a colossal smile
grinning beneath your grids
swallowing with giant gulps
gnashing roads and towers with granite teeth
then in the end
chasing her putrid meal
she drains a cleansing drink from the sea
and seals her rocky lips once more
leaving only desert
