they streamed out,
in quick succession—
holding handkerchiefs
to their noses, some
emerged with their eyes
watering, others were
coughing,
siren blaring the coda
to what unfolded
inside, burning eyes,
.
the five-minute riot
bifurcates
sense of accomplishment,
to the bingeing
on bad behaviour,
unprecedented,
a gross miscalculation,
the plan nixed, to allow
today’s debacle,
lost…
.
A 55-word erasure poem for Imaginary Garden With Real Toads. Worded after massive erasing of text but in serial order of course, from here.