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July 17, 2014 Poetry

Model City

Nina Puro

Model City photo
 
 

I build a model city out of cans,
name each beer can after a failure,
each soda can after a regret.

I leave the fridge door open,
let everything rot
in celebration of your absence.

The bacteria was already there
the night we spooned the potatoes
into lunchmeat Tupperware.

The model city basks
in the thirty-watt glow
of its sun.

We are as disposable as buffer states
around an empire. I am sending my armies
to plunder your capital.

image: Amanda Goldblatt


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