Skid Row

uzomah ugwu
Aug 9, 2022

She opened up into a good lie

A great lie, one that would capture

Her life and give vision to her homeless eyes

Dinner at finer dumpsters not better than the last

She fed her appetite to by shifting broken glass cut between her fingers

A man brought her coffee on a morning that would not give up.

He gave her a cup

That would not break so she would get past noon. down it went

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