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The Parking Garage Beneath Westside Pavilion

James Croal Jackson

 

 

I slept beneath the mall for some time
to avoid the burden of capitalism ha! 

if I could that would be glorious to
avoid the landlord hey look I am in 

the parking garage what garbage
all these ads for movies I do and 

do not want to see but I would
not know I did not want to see it 

until seeing that is the predicament
I do not have the cash nor the time 

to spend paying for rent give me
gunmetal cement walls six floors 

beneath the surface where I drive 
to where not even bugs venture 

there I am unbound
I fly in my dreams

 

 

 

 

James Croal Jackson is a Filipino-American poet who works in film production. He has three chapbooks: Count Seeds With Me (Ethel Zine & Micro-Press, 2022), Our Past Leaves (Kelsay Books, 2021), and The Frayed Edge of Memory (Writing Knights, 2017). He edits The Mantle Poetry from Pittsburgh, PA. (jamescroaljackson.com)

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