Undercover

It's the only story you really want to write -
an anonymous source
between the dented cans and
ground level dust:

Headline: we’re all just renting the planet
in blacktop lease agreements.  our
genetic signatures drying
in the bony limbs of children.

the rest are squatters--
estranged business casuals dragging
their tv dramas and hair entropy

to places permanent as
a status update.