BRIEF BIOGRAPHY OF A VISITING LOITERER

And once having risen from over the great lake to the east
To near dead-center of the suffering city below,
The sun seemed as if to "park" itself over Milwaukee and just hang there:
Like it had committed suicide, this painful burning blister stationed itself in the humidity-soaked haze of a cloudless sky...
And just hanged there;
As beneath its harsh unblinking glare, hatred, mayhem and murder rose--
Rising, in increments equal to that of every increase in degree of temperature and dew point.
And then, the sun moved west....