A strange encounter on Massachusetts Avenue
his implication was
that we should shoot each other In the streets
this is not the wild, wild
west
this is Arlington
where his gun argument holds little water
so I implied
that he go back to texas
where you can shoot each other in the streets
without any implication
without reason
without matter
with your
head held high
and all implications
set aside.
a biker shaved between us
blinded by a late july sun
in the shadow of all of this
they both winced
I smiled
and retreated, quickly
like the rain
like traffic on Massachusetts Avenue
when the sun implies
that it will fade
quietly
into the west.
Photography © Steve Warren
publishes The Montucky Review and sits on the editorial staff of The Bookends Review. Widely published around the globe, he flies under the radar. Deftly.
Steve Warren’s interests are in the healing arts, poetry, photography, dance, the nutritional arts and much more. He is a peer specialist in the recovery movement.
Your poetry is just…………… odd