The temporary miracle of times square

Parents & kids                                Roaches
                          shop by                     scattered in
               the
      same walls               over-
        pimps & johns                 whelming
                     once                             light
      slouched against                               to find
                     now just                                        another
            painted over                                             darkness

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Karl Miller's fiction and poetry have appeared in various periodicals. His play, A Night in Ruins, was produced Off-Off Broadway; "Elena," a novelette, was published in 2018. A Best of the Net nominee, Miller lives in Coral Springs, FL.