Home of the Warriors

the garbage cans

look like

stupid robots

no personality

at all

in a ravine of dusty green

grass, big trees

and their roots

busting out of the ground

picnic

tables creating

loneliness

in that shade

and the sound of

basketball shoes

squawking against

asphalt

people are here

but not too many

of course

kids

playing

on all the day-glo equipment

even though the big

sign says

you know

don't

yellow

caution-tape and everything

little kids just

on the slide

and swings

pulling the tape off

throwing it

on the

ground

stomping on it

situated here

behind the firehouse

next to the old

high school

being rebuilt

the football

field and bleachers

and a great big sign

letting everybody

know

that this is

the home

of

the warriors