I'm Sorry California
Just a 20 something in Long Beach.
I'm sorry California.
I don't know if you want to hear it.
For so long
You've been in pain.
No longer golden.
At least no gold left to hide
In the physical.
Even the age of a distant time,
a golden era, if you will
the pain and suffering that came with it
no longer able to hide.
Beach filth
In nouns
Person, place or thing.
You're crying.
Bleeding out,
we cut you open.
Smog.
Grime rhyming with crime.
What more can we take that you have not given?
I am sorry California,
though I appear as a traveler
a pilgrim in a beautiful yet unholy land
filled with the neon
graveyard
of what once was.
I don't know
if you want to hear it,
But,
I'm sorry California.
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