My Neighbor

of wretchedness there are many sorts;
most of which, however,
are a-semous as static,
unheeded, snored-over --

the wretchedness of her oxford
from the discount shop, sweated from shop to shop
and dried of labor's lost labor
in her child's screech, in its needy upturned mouth.

i will, on leaving, kiss this apparition
whom seeing compels me to roads
eastward from the maddened dust. i run:
my contraception.