GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN

a vandalized bank weeps
for a rash of crime

the madman is a thirty year old
gumball machine

a storm rolls in and
the gumball machine
is shattered by a violent wind
which collects the candy
in a cyclone
and makes a rainbow

an artist goes to work
with the glass
to record the rainbow
which hurts an old man
to see

the old man has a clipboard
and a petition against pain

a seagull signs white shit

the artist cuts himself
on the rainbow
and bleeds out
into the creek

the old man
is saved
from his body

a giant fisherman in a yellow slicker
drags his net through town and comes up
with some good meat
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