Monday, April 17, 2023

Brake lights backed up through 
a four-way standstill signal 
a nearby new beginning: 
months of discomfort, 
delays and detours as years of 
quick-fix concrete and steel patches 
are remade more enduring.
The Right Way hurts, you see: 
smarts and throbs and stays sore
for far longer than we’d like. 
Inconvenient and infeasible — 
an unreasonable expenditure; 
a clear and present assault on 
a normalcy with invisible risks 
and unseen harms — it asks patience 
from a short-fused powder keg. 
But for healing to be ours, 
so too must be pain.

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