People have no idea what’s really going on. It’s exhausting, having to be a part of this all the time and every day.

most people are coming home from work
some
just starting
or in the middle of a shift
: everyone in their uniforms; could be pressed,
could be wrinkled

a few sit out on their stoops all day
whose thankless job is to keep a hawkeye watch
over the block

last week on hancock
a burglar ungracefully entered a grandpa’s home,
bopped him on the head with a pistol
and thought, ‘damn
this job’s rough.’

no fantasists need apply