Spring Training For NaPoWriMo April 2020.
Fated
And that was a Bar, that a Bookstore,
there a Flower shop-
And just passed by the Bakery-
You can still smell it, sorta-
And there, a Dry Cleaners, and Wedding
Photographer, gone-
And here, some kind of “build it and they will
come,” Notions store-
next to the Hardware Store
that hung on, but ghosted a month ago,
or so-
Along with that fish Taco place that briefly
trended and then an adios-
and the Pizza Place that had the balls and
street cred to call itself a Pizzeria –
A sign still hangs but the lettering’s faded