fingerless glove dropped on the sidewalk 
that my bare hand didn't feel missing 
man with a shaved head and eyepatch yells 
is this your glove like a trusted friend
is this your glove like a trusted friend
might ask  - is that your mind 
at risk of drowning in the standstill 
of  a sidewalk tsunami from a jeep 
driving by 
friends don’t let friends completely lose
their fingerless minds, or at least  console them 
when they do 
all things must pass/ time is medicine
one day you’ll wake up, and/ you are valid/
a gift
I don’t know my mind well enough
to tell if it's lost, or mine, when someone runs breathless
to show me what I dropped 
it's an abstract infrastructure, a locked up business 
unreachable institution draining all the resources 
between my ears
more I know what it leaks down to
the pulsing places, softer stickier zones 
the transfer stations and rain barrel realms 
peripheral warming huts,
overlooked not 
underused
 
Fantastic.
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