2010
03.25

much of this doesn’t exist anymore,
the ammunition to keep that pen firing,
such a place where you could buy powder
for 15 cents to kill someone
and then your nose,
is now bulldozed, replaced with
a new building called Little Paris,
don’t know what touristy
shit they sell… but they say
his name echoes up from the ground,
but

every time I buy some food
at Zankou Chicken,
I have to drive by Buk’s old
apartment a block away.
too bad he moved to San Pedro.
what a waste. to be from
the whores, pimps, drugs and bars,
but I guess even guys like him
want a nice place by the sea
when they get old.


© Anthony Liccione, 2010
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