Suburban Spring
February 12, 2018
Dogs barking
Yapping
Yipping
Old people walking
Whiney
And withered
Trees that stand tall
With pretty white flowers
So white and delicate
Petals decorate their underbrush
Smelling an awful lot like fish
My fishy trees
And rough scraped knees
Are enough to have said
Helmets are more useful
When they’re on your head
Pumped up tires on the cruddy-old bike
Do nothing to stop the impact
Of a skull on concrete
Shoes are abandoned
When grass is fresh clipped
Running around
All bare feet and grins
Their hands coated in chalk and
Clothes held together by safety pins
Soft soil beds
For healthy flowers to spread
The sweet smell of dewdrops
On that bright spring day
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