Shutdown

Shutdown





Closing the door 
On a lightless storefront:
Commerce-cheating:
Out fishin’:
Will work for pay, 
Will fish for pay,
Pay today, pay delayed, unpaid:
PayGo bad-baited. 

Locking the door
To a soulless chamber:
Broke, brow-beating:
Not fixin’:
Manufactured,
Crisis, mis-made,
Disguised guile, wiles displayed; dismayed,
Blacklist-way-waited. 

Guarding the door
On a sieve-like border:
Swamp floor-feeding:
Big-stickin’:
Hostage taking,
Ghetto building:
Fallen Walden, walls in, out-splayed,
Portals hacked, gated. 

Changing the door,
Flipping gilt-hinged in-swings,
Words-switched-meeting:
Time-tickin’:
Fill porous holes,
Push feckless goals
Broken beacon, un-woken ways,
Devils’ fruits mated. 

Passing the door,
Broadside and end-around:
Ground-swole-seeding:
Dream-wishin’:
Pax on nations,
Healed ablations,
Shutdown down-shocked, shocked-shuts allayed,
Resuscitated.


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