Breaking Glass

The sound of glass breaking echoes through the pale night. Blinding shadows leap from building to building carrying dust and doom. And there, in a crevice, near stench-filled sewers, he waits, hugging his broken body. He wears the tattered discards of the rich and vacant. A yellow beret stained by the urine of forgotten hope sits atop his head. Madness keeps him warm and safe, a wall against fear and humiliation.


A coin settles nearby, tossed out by someone with false generosity. The man tiptoes away, a smug smile searing his handsome face. And then he stumbles and rolls and cries as he lands in the filth and decay and you laugh, and laugh, and laugh.

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