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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

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