Poetry

My Valley Is the Street

Charles Bastille
2 min readNov 12, 2021

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Photo by Dimi Katsavaris on Unsplash

Homeless.

I knock on the store window
hoping nobody’s within
my feet in flames if they are
my mouth as my cudgel
I’ll roar like a beast hoping they’ll run

Restaurant.

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Charles Bastille

Medium "Top writer" in racism, humor, politics, and satire. No AI-assisted writing. Author of MagicLand and more. All stories © 2022-23 by Charles Bastille.