WHAT WOULD BROKEN WINDOW THEORY SAY
about the time we tied a jump rope to a glass door.
(it was fun for a while) to play single-dutch,
young limbs too unsynced to share.
would it say something other than to beaver's stray baseball?
or to the frisbees collected on the white gravel
of the roof of our lopsided yard,
on our hillsided street;
tossed back to californian blond(e)s,
on a scale from oops to neglect, just what
or while biking through the black side of town
( an immigrant home also wanted by gentry)
i spy ahead, the tremor of the filament in a broken taillight,
wondering what depth or death is rattling there
here i see dandelions,
a sidewalk that threatens a spine,
parallel parking just a little too ascrew
& if i get lost drop or spill or mistake out here
alone (i hear censure whispering feel eyes)
how would Broken Window Theory judge it?