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their own feet<br />
while throwing gang signs)<br />
stand outside and hold<br />
their nightly debate<br />
on the subject: Resolved:<br />
We Must Be Better Gangsters.<br />
When the normal American humans<br />
come back, drunk,<br />
and the local gangsters heckle them,<br />
I’m awake,<br />
and reconciled to the gangsters<br />
for the time being.<br />
I don’t think I’ll pretend<br />
to know things I don’t anymore.<br />
I’d like to go out but<br />
we’re not allowed<br />
in the parks at night<br />
in New York, so<br />
I spread a blanket on the floor<br />
and <strong>free</strong> the ant farm.<br />
Brandon Holmquest * The Sorrows of Young Worthless with photographs by Hugh Sansom <strong>Truck</strong> <strong>Books</strong>, 2010 48