9/12/25, “There was a fire here—”

There was a fire here—

it’s gone now; belongs in a museum

DOLLAR GENERAL on Pelham Road, a site of

arson by an employee and her

son in the first degree

motive yet unknown.

Firefighters on the scene within two

minutes of the call coming in they

extinguished the blaze within twenty

giving time to recover key

evidence, video evidence before

it was destroyed in identifying the

perpetrators.

Chief Wood confirms

a total loss, the building, the marker

of commerce architecture buckled,

warped and hollow, festered and swallowed

quickly, as quickly as the namesake of that

Main drag, artillery head cracked, unaware, fallen

struck from a distance and lauded in statuary

traitorous glory for Confederacy Daughters in

1909, eyesore lies square in the heart of this place, this

space, this city thrumming on the backs of library-bound

Black patriots, only a marker for the Jacksonville Trailblazers—

Where are their faces cast in Bronze?

He has many markers—what is one more plaque?

-Johnny Byutorie