National Poetry Month: Anthony Cody
I say the City did this. ] ] UNTRUE [ [ My x-acto blame. I mean
that the California Department of Transportation in conjunction,
collaboration, and clarity with the City cleaved the block to what
I know. ] ] TRUE [ [ On the home renovation channel they ask
to install butcher block everywhere. Homogenous. Aesthete,
Aesthete! shout the planners to what I know now to be what
was once my neighborhood. The people leave. Mail
carriers. Future
Burrito barrons. ] ] TRUE [ [
Everything gone. ] ] UNTRUE [ [
My family
remains. ] ] UNTRUE [ [ My grandparents died.
Shadowshape the drive.
] ] UNTRUE [ [
A searchenginemappingvehicle ™ cruises by the home of my grandparents.
On avenidaview my grandfather razasquatchx walks before his large lemon tree.
The still is uploaded into the nearest droughtcloudfarmvault.
I punch address and arrow until the fiber returns grandfather. ] ] TRUE [ [
In the follows
of whom I will never meet
my grandfather appears
perpetually. . ] ] TRUE [ [ Gone.
Successful grid.
. ] ] UNTRUE [ [
LogicFrequency, brief. OrbLit Grandfather recurs.