Sunday, February 17, 2013

Lost


Lost

By the convenience store
a lottery scratch-off game
is laminated to the asphalt.
This wet parking lot, see how
small printing blurs into pale paperboard.
It's upside-down, sealed, secreted.
Ruined by soaking
and truck tires,
it dissolves in oil and thin mud:
Not a winner.


(1/18/13)