Posts by: Miroslav Ladan
You drive often by that self-serve storage area
In Gray Maine
Nothing unusual you think
You’ve seen those long rows of warehouse-like buildings
In every corner of the country
Yet this one reminds you of the bleak buildings of
Auschwitz
There she stands on the Bus 73
Wishfully looking at an empty seat
And wondering if she will be able
To squeeze herself in
Between people on the adjacent seats
Who have spilled over
Onto the territory that by now
Should have been hers
There’s an aura of [...]
I’ve been trying to buy a house for many years
And something would always happen
Last minute
Like that time when I put money down
On an A-Frame in Bethel Maine
The day when quadruple murder occurred
A few miles away
For the first time in more than [...]
To Macy’s I am going today
Where I will have to pay
With money
Plain old US dollars
While I bring with me
Only my melancholy
And times I felt good without a reason
Like three years ago
When it started snowing in my town
A [...]
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