Chicago was never a friend to you,
my friend.
She may look beautiful
in photographs, but
underneath
she is
a naked,
fat
homeless
man
with a piece of cardboard
hiding his penis,
hollering about God,
while the sane-seeming
co-spectator to your
left
begins to preach -
"This is a dark city,
oh Lord!
A dark city of the devil,
oh Jesus!"
She is
Mohammad in Starbucks
with a mathematical explanation
for enlightenment;
a silver lake, and the garbage
gathers and settles
a
l
o
n
g
t
h
e
e
d
g
e
s
Chicago was never a friend to you,
my friend.
You took some beautiful photos of her,
but that
was
it.