sbarro tomorrow

industrial pipes

water treatment plants

Those metal stairs on the side of old buildings

Rusted girders

Bare lightbulbs especially dangling from wires

Broken pavement that has been patched and crumbled away over and over again

Bridges

Railroad tracks

Telephone poles full of staples and nails

old brick walls with the paint peeling off

places where a wall has been patched over and over again

concrete blocks

old fluorescent lights

Crappy motels

Empty strip malls

Tunnels underneath the road

Gates with old padlocks wrapped around them

Barbed wire

rebar poking out of piles of concrete

Bundles of wires running along ceilings and walls dividing up into their own directions

Air conditioning units huffing out warm breath

Narrow alleyways between old buildings

Long-abandoned concrete planters and flowerpots filled with cigarette butts and random scraggly weeds

Old apartment buildings with tarnished metal letters on the thickly repainted old doors and porch lights full of dead bugs and doors that stick shut

Grimy windows

Bent and rusty metal roofs

Things covered in many many layers of paint

Abandoned warehouses

Streetlights that flicker weirdly

Crumbled stairs

Half collapsed Chain link fences

Old walls that have been repaired and caulked and sealed with foam and painted over again

Weeds in a planter, old doors without latches

Layers of paint peeling off of a bike

These are a few of the things that I like

Flickering lightbulbs that dangle from wires

Old metal stairways for running from fires

Bridges or alleys or train tracks to hike

These are a few of the things that I like

Crumbling pavement, stairs, walls, and foundations

Buildings abandoned, lost human creations

Artifice marked by an entropic spike

These are a few of the things that I like

Watch the sun rise, hear the clock strike

As time passes on

Creating anew all the the things that I like--