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29 and holding
by Brent McKnight
it’s snowing
first of the year.
I feel like I should
write about it
something profound
how beautiful it is
cloaking the charcoal concrete
pristine white flakes
blunting the sound.

but mostly it just
annoys me.
the heater in my house
crapped out last spring
the cinder block walls
of my basement room
radiate ice and damp
exponentially colder
than the half-ass
half-functional
refrigerator in the kitchen.

wind bites my ears
through my olive drab
watch cap
my fingers
curl into a ball
in my pockets
as I curse the bus to work
that passes by without
stopping
flipping the change in my palm
thinking it’s about to
stick to the skin.