Heavy Showers - By Uri Small
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Heavy Showers - By Uri Small

"It rained a lot last night. I looked outside my window and was inspired".

Heavy Showers - By: Uri Small


Their dreams are like a cloudy sky

Increasing in the color gray

Diminishing sun rays as prison time pours high

Pressuring dreams to precipitate

Dreams of a new home, a new man, in new States

Falling tart; moody, yellow water

Boiling blue with grief, dreams don't evaporate

They deform into despair, destruct into disorder


Muddy and green streams of young men and daughters

Flowing towards brown grass, broken relationships, rocky ditches,

Family tombstones broken and walked over.

Yes, slugging below the sewer's barred grate. Which is

The last drop of their purple promises

In old States flooding the conduit

Sunk under years of incarcerated homelessness

Would you call their dreams rainwater or purple sewage?




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