10-E Looking Left at LA

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Los Angeles hides
 
            its children
in an ash specked blanket,
 
clammy tadpoles
                        float along
                                    edgeless
in indifferent
 
cobalt –
 
local flesh
is made of nickel
and pleather,
 
Venice Blvd is
clogged with tumors;
 
desperate is a city
frowning in a mirror,
 
four
            million and
                                    nobody.