The L-Block burns
Stepping up to an emotional tension, I've stretched myself thin.
The night of the blaze I walked streets filled with slush, a steady stream of water, and ice. The police cars strobed till I thought I might have a seizure. Fire and ice.. wasn't that in the bible? Vapor clouds of cremated cats, lead paint, baseball cards mixed with baby's clothes drifted by. We inhaled memories. Tired firemen decked in heavy suits and oxygen tanks climbed up slippery ladders into pink smoke.
One tiny wrapped cylinder of tobacco.
I rose and my heart shuddered with adrenaline remembering how fire, as barbed cat tongues, licked us clean.
We come in naked and by god we go out the same.
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