I wrote these while out of town to help care for my partner, during her FFS recovery.

Inspired by the nakedly visible income inequality of downtown San Francisco; I never want to forget the sickness that I felt that day.

The system we live in is truly rotten. And the most horrifying part is that we can all treat it as normal.

Asset Protection

A pair of socks in a spider-wrapped lockbox.

Two cops flank the doors of the Apple Store.

A sign says: “This area under video surveillance”,

and I believe it.

Nothing Personal

Discarded needles lay on the sidewalk

beneath the feet of busy shoppers.

No time to read signs scrawled

upon damp cardboard and salvaged boxes.

Check your phones instead.