a spot for occasional daytime pickup
and most often for midnight strolls
a place to walk off the one-liter ice cream tub
and wrap up thoughts inside a roll
hiding behind the cloud of smoke
huddling together against the cold
sipping on a Kopparberg or a Coke
passing as playful 16-year-olds
on a bench to watch friends and neighbors
both those cast off and newcomers
the things we see, the things we saw
dangling in our heads after a ride on the spinner
blasting speaker wouldn’t cause an uproar
and there’s no pain even when free falling
we tread and plunge and mark our colors
on this blue chunk of rubber padding
to Northfield 13
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Hà Nội, 6/2023
Thu writes here 