Always

The thick plastic melted slowly, the letters
lifting from the sign, curling and contorting in the heat.
“They must've been applied cheaply.” 
Is what an onlooker would've observed. 

A car running over the ashes
as they fell on Main Street.
Is how I imagined the episode ending. 

It was a stupid sign,
something about always shopping local.
Never should've hung in the first place.
Waste of someone's money as I said 

No officer, not an act of violence;
Yes neighbor, of course I shop local; 
But the word 
always
So needlessly and carelessly 
Impossible