True story.
I couldn’t find a better match for these words than Aussens@iter’s edgy killer guitar work.

free in philadelphia

poignancy visiting a nation’s birthplace
while on cnn cops are shooting unarmed teens
as trump rises

the country’s first stockmarket, the bourse,
now symbolically a shopping mall
with philly cheese steaks

a rushed visit downstairs to the restroom,
a full-length mirror mistaken for a doorway
and my skull splits at the eyebrow

a crack in the liberty bell…



(Originally published on Justin Lowe’s Bluepepper poetry blog.)