I
Geoffrey (the symbolic-
stealing nigger)
with a polaroid of
5 procreated analogies
& a subway wrapper
to his accolade
coiled under an archway
greater than his
own architecture
found reconciliation
easier when
fried chicken &
obstruction notices
were once the
quasi-negative counterparts
of figureheads commuting
first-class aquaplaning on
low evangelical gutters
through gridlocked capitalism
side-stepping at 90mph
propagating themselves
through the
discretion of tepid
dialectics
II
He collapsed
infatuated by the
cheap prophecy
of himself
& what the polaroid said/
what subway
& fried chicken said
people pass him
with the Homeric,
dactylic grandeur of
chess pieces
without strategy
palpitating from
their contradictions
inconspicuously
towards abstinence
further beyond
the theatre of apprehending
the responsibility
for another nigger’s
synchronic decline
