Plaster smudges
and modern art
scattered rubbish
dirty cigarette blotches
party cups
half full beer
butts rudely put out
in slick sludge on bottom
drinking rum and coke
out of a scratched and frosted
fogged with filthy film
random scribblings on the wall
by drunk laureates
insane confessions
and kegs from Thursday-
a night I never remember
the ancient rumbling ceiling fan
which creeks and bumbles on
communal ashtrays
dirty and burn ridden
cans, cigarette packs, bottle caps,
trash,
beauty
old radiator decorated with Greek art
white scratch painted marble
road construction signs in the corner
cardboard advertisements
holes
jagged in the ceiling,
in the walls
in the floor
angry fists have exposed
sickly wood beams
crumbling the sheet rock
discarded ideas and candy wrappers
a fallen house fan
on decrepit linoleum
arm(less) chairs
and extension cord blues
random piles of cd's
disheveled
unwanted
lampshades hung with eternal dust-
luxury in a flop house