Pavement bleached as white as bone
By countless angry rains
An abandoned chocolate ice cream cone
Coloring the concrete with stains

A shopping cart rolls fast away
Baby seat rusted shut
A driver's license, here to stay -
Glued to the ground with gum

A line of stores
With boarded doors
And hundreds of empty shelves

A family of bugs
Chews through the plugs
Like ugly destructive elves

At dawn a line of bulldozers
Will come and knock it down
As if it never happened
As though it had never stood proud

And one day a man might walk there
And never known it had stood
He would never know, and never care
He never ever would