Ghetto Sprawl

[smoldering earth, hopeless fractures, perpetual dusk, entombing fog, eternal enslavement, fantastic post-apocalyptic landscape - all imagined]

We make the home suitable for us, and thus a life of aspiration or ghetto sprawl as "things just happen" when we give up. Either self-belief because we know what we are and what we want, or disbelief in tomorrow along with anger, excuses, blame, and dysfunction to passively join the ghetto sprawl.

Sycophantic friends crazier than you will not disagree.
So the ghetto it is
On the count of three we all are free.

• a liquor store for frequent external intoxication so your spirit stays small and muddled
• a church for rituals and imaginary worlds to accuse, allay you of responsibility, and to erode aspiration
• crime mainstreamed; decay, ugliness, and failure considered "normal" and embraced