Los Angeles, Memorial In Graffiti

Around the corner in an alley
Behind a run-down diner
On a nameless Los Angeles street

Two strangers converge slowly on
The appointed location where 
Their mutual connection set a meet

On their first point of contact
An explosive reaction that
Produced something violent and divine

They continued their encounters
Coupling, colliding, entwining, dividing
Nearly every day of aught nine

Like every age of greatness
The trysts gradually abated
Until the two hardly met at all

Behind a run-down diner
On a nameless corner
A memorial in graffiti on the wall 

May 26, 2017
Copyright © | Year Posted 2017

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June 4, 2017 at 8:22 PM
Wow.......I really love this poem !! I can picture this place, having once lived in So California... so many streets just like their meeting place, .... behind a run-down diner. This could capture a longer story !! But you left me wanting more! Well done!
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