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# Urban Revelations 
**by Samantha Savello**

I broke the pattern. 
Crackled curves down the 
smooth surface I was trying 
to preserve for you.

I tried so hard to keep the sidewalk 
clean, shoving the banana peels and half-drunk coke cans 
and crumpled cardboard into the streets that lined my veins.

But the pressure eventually built up 
and the contents of my capillaries
exploded, sending the ugliness I was trying 
to spare you from right into your lap. 

Showing you the shameful truth.
