Street Lamp Fallout

One light on this alley, must run at least 300 yards, looks like it fades off toward the end of the universe in the direction of an ultimate fear few dare to face, except the insane, desperate, or destitute who make such a location their permanent residence. The dark forces are a beacon for misery, failure, and compulsion to self destruct, like a shotgun in the mouth, then pull the trigger, danger is nothing to be avoided here, can't be done, impossible, it comes with every breath, every shower, and every carefully measured footstep down this corridor of misfortune. A woman walks into the void, clay like, animated, a chew toy for eternal forces who need to be appeased with token sacrifices in order to prevent something more universally catastrophic. There are plenty more snacks wandering these nearby avenues who have no other purpose than to serve as fast food for the purely evil nature that nests at the other end of the alley, like a spider, alert but motionless, patient yet quick to strike, the moment between inaction and mortality is razor thin, no decision, merely detection then consumption. Screams of terror fade into bottomless wells, victim after victim, the people around here once tried to burn the apartments around the alley to the ground only to find more and more rows of abandoned housing fortifying the passage drawing more unsuspecting victims into its insastiable stomach. As the gap between the rich and the poor widens this meat grinder for the havenots shall only grow larger to keep up with the ever increasing influx of more people, shredding humans into fodder for government agencies to further personal agendas while lining their budgets with programs that only serve to maintain, refine, and improve on the process of making citizens of the United States into either criminals or cannibals, the guts are eroding, I can smell it on the sidewalk, see it in the eyes of every third person I meet, and watch blank eyed children dream of malnourishing the minds of the future with useless gadgets and information that do nothing but drive people to drugs, obiesity, or a first class seat into cyberspace, billons of children need something to do, not all of them can rule the world, but this rate, none of them will.