MassA(ve)cre

smashed bottles
Cigarette butts
empty green packs
Busted works
broken lighters
scattered clothing
paper scraps
Suboxene wrappers
the occasion pill bottle,
label ripped off
Newports for a dollar
non-fatal overdoses
extra gravity weighing on
the junky's heavy head
an abandoned shoe
Backpacks bulging,
filled with all earthly possession
Used condoms
Used Narcan
bags that cost .5 cents extra
Security in every store
boosters selling every
and anything they can
A bad smell in the
fast food restaurant
100 sob stories
800 mg neurontin
$20 blowjobs
cutting the line at
the methadone clinic
hard, soft, brown
barbed wired fences
sleepers on sidewalks-
they belong to the Ave now
All the stumbling living dead
and a pretty dyed red
head Irish girl who's the
very definition of
hot Mess
born on Halloween
and cool af
most likely I'll end
up marrying her