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# Black Tar Gone Gray
- URL: https://www.wonderfell.org/black-tar-gone-gray/
- Published: 2024-11-06T16:16:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-08-11T18:18:53.000Z
- Author: Wynn
- Tags: Poems, America

thin blue chalk line up on black tar  
gone gray called concrete curbs  
set -not reset- since The Great Depression.

where old weeds  
the same weeds  
new weeds grow

sometimes, though *sometimes*  
a dandelion grows, too  
sometimes, though *some time*

a kid picks it up -plucks it up-  
blows the parachute cotton-  
picked soft seeds to the wind

sometimes- *so few times*  
float to full wishes fulfilled  
sometimes- so *many sometimes*

no wind on never fall flowers, but turn flat  
and press down yesterday’s gray concrete  
bought old sold older worthless oldest

windless without reason why pick up  
pluck up a weed and dream it something  
some wonderful some-any-thing new

hopes choke on dead dandelion parachute cords  
tethered to hot black tar gone gray called concrete  
set -not reset- since the Great Depression.

\~ Wynn \~