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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