Best Asphalt Poems

Upon tomorrow's arrival,
today fades into yesterday.
And apathy spurs denial
as endangered animals die.

Wherever concrete cities rise,
collateral damage occurs.
And as jets traverse open skies,
wild birds get annihilated.

We dedicate our existence,
to a utopia of steel.
And survive in asphalt jungles;
shadowed by lofty achievements.

Reality is a mirage;
projected on collapsing hopes.
And...

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We played sports
on asphalt fields
drains and sewer lids
for bases
Billy’s house the right field line
Tommy’s porch
a short left field.

We diagramed
football plays
bottle caps, fractured marbles,
Mikey’s favorite button.
The ball was scuffed
bladder worn
sticking out where it was torn.

The jump rope slapped
sidewalk cracks
sneakers tapped the beat
“Double Dutch” amazingly
twin passing ropes
a...

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In the crevices of a tired town,
roaches scuttle under moonlit sighs,
their dinky bodies torn by shadows 
that shroud the crumbling edges of life.

A cat lounges, indifferent,
its gaze halfway between hunger and apathy,
as food spills—moldy bread,
booze-slicked whispers lingering as lost dreams. 
Vomit pools near the park...

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On the fringe of the morning

              the neat rows of wheat fields, 
              
     ...

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Driving through this endless desert
I feel so alone, 
Thoughts of you float through my mind
But worse are thoughts of home. 

Home? The shelter? The streets? Parking lots?
Just close enough to what matters most
They say to spread your wings and fly but
I chose the freedom of...

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"The Unicorn and The Sticky Asphalt Jungle"



Bedtime stories
now walk through fog
The Unicorn skips 
on lines of sticky Asphalt

The father writes his play
The mother seen as absent
becomes deus ex machina
she will be the only one 

to save the day

Along The Road
Bushfires burn the Heart
A Child like...

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Winter 
       the remaining snow 
   of the last
 brutal
   storm 
is now absorbing 
the dirt and detritus 
   of the asphalt homeland
     That homeland 
   ...

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Around the benches
the young and the not so young 
   are gathered 
The bodega is open for busingess
   Someone is talking loudly 
into a cellphone
    disturbing the peace of the shoppers
The  sky is growing darker 
We have...

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Ouch! Ouch! Hot asphalt
My bare feet barely touch the ground
Like a cat on a hot tin roof...

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Mom
I've heard that Earth and the time are making asphalt of very old....

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Boy gets up at six
Needs no alarm of complaint
To shake
The brief night of sleep
From his hay-cropped hair

Brushes his teeth
Smokes a two dollar holler of cigarette for breakfast

A pack a day is like tax day for him
Paid by ten in the morning
Then the day is free...

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not looking to left, or right, another rider drove 
straight into her, knocking her off her blue Yamaha 
and out into the asphalt sea,
then…looking quickly round, (for steam rollers) 
she jumped up, like one of those sea-gods in a 
Japanese movie, slashing the mountain of...

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The city is in chaos
these days that Love
has felt tired of walking
and has decided to take a nap
on its asphalt
The sidewalks are full of people
who came to see what is going on,
and since no one takes the risk
of stepping on so strange a visitor,
streets are...

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I was sipping on some whiskey when a black cat crossed my trail;
There was a black magic woman that liked to swish her tail.
   It was a black Cadillac that took my daddy to his grave;
   It was a black beauty...

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Asphalt inherited 
The new world,
From the stamped bricks
That lie sleeping,
Beneath it....

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