______
______
______
The morning
light rose
dark, and stayed
dark, deeper
blanketed by
even darker
umbrellas
and moods.
_______
Why do they insist
on coloring
umbrellas
so morbidly?
It doesn’t do
anyone
any good
when you need one.
________
Standing un-
adorned, I watched
as people ran from
tunnel to buses,
running further
into an un-
stable safety web.
_________
M86 East End:
_________
I would not go
to the end,
and so I stood
there, letting
the wet inherit
my wind.
____________
M86 Yorkville
E 92nd St/1 Av:
____________
only another way
to call it the end
of the line.
_____________
***
________
The rooms were quiet
at first, and then
much less so.
_____
I hid
in the men’s
room, remembering
my lady friends,
feeling relieved
and barren and
still incredibly sad.
___________
***
_____
And then,
later, after,
standing
on the still
raining side-
walk, two
strays turn
the corner
and stoop
near the street-
gutter, staring
at the water
collecting,
and then leaving
on to some-
place else
entirely.
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