Angel Doesn't Live Here

Cops kept coming to my door
2, 3 times a day they knocked
asking for "Angel"

I kept telling them
"Angel doesn't live here"

they showed me his mugshot

he looked like his crime
fat, tired
domestic abuse, bodily harm

"never seen the guy before," I told them

eventually the cops stopped showing up

maybe they caught him

or maybe Angel found his nice little slice of heaven
held up in a safe house
in a nowhere barrio
a Pringle can filled w/ cigarette butts
that dangerous look in his eyes

American as apple pie

either way
I didn't care

I just wanted Angel and the cops
to leave me alone

just go

and take the whole hell of existence with them

somewhere else

© 2012 Lee Kitzis