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The Busyness of Passing Waves

City of Rats

Days

It's the same as always...

Recently...

You lying there bare and neat...

And still...

Midnight Snack

Not a Full Moon

Dream

Sadness





Barnes and Noble after Tae Kwon Do
is too intense an experience.
The once comforting books now
look at me demandingly

exerting pressure on my weakened
limbs. New fiction seduces, but
with all the expectation of a first
date, not to speak of the shrewd

looks I get from the buy two get
one free
bin. It is only with great
difficulty (and by sneaking a lean on
the hard cover for sale table) that I find respite

somewhere between the New Yorker
and US News and World Report. But already
the rain is subsiding and slipping the security guard
a nod like a note during class

I come up for air on Broadway.