what waiting does to you

We are tossed by every uneven street
And I try not to recall the ocean
In the heart of this great city-
The cobblestone! The church! The mansions! The soviet blocks! 

Wordless stanzas.
Watch the ink
Scratch at half-utterances
World churning
In Grandma's kitchen
1998-
 
Memory please
Catch the hot wind.
I will be airborne
One day fly back to you
and patience
My virtue dies.

Billboards scream
But I have
Just
Like love, don't want.

My keyboard, the typewriter.
My hand quills
My two-lung stone slabs

Mindless etchings.
Faint anger
And the distant sound of you-
Singing?
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