meager violence
When I'm not at work, I spend time with my wife, read many books, try to write the kind of stuff I want to read, and stomp around old, dusty places to shoot photos I want to see.
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the air is thick tonight, and dumb silent.
a vice-grip itch fits like an old boot.
exhaled smoke loiters before me,
unwavered, prying the
dead-crawl hours:
a bored demon
waiting for something.
but i…
i’m not waiting
for anything.
i expect nothing.
and goddamn it all,
i want
even less.
i ache
for
nowhere.
words and photos by Jay Halsey
