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Reaching far into one’s throat

retrieving every wild moan

that may have existed there…

~

It’s late into the summer of 2008

Fall is peering at us
from every corner of dashing alleyways

that are now
lined with primo café’s

that roast the beans for each cup

to the backyard bands that play
to more than cans along the ground

to the fused hipsters
dancing like bright colored lollipops

all in a place that
once stuttered with loitering vagabonds

too drunk to care
too greased to befriend

crusading the sweep of trash
Finding a cup by the spare of hand out

Running their last stop

~

Above this

below this

all around this

The city streets grow near silent

leaves at a faceless tremble point eastward

with no gentle perfume

The Holiday has taken it’s parade, lakeside

to the Tahoe resort

to the crisp swim and shadow play of fire pit story and dance
the nights here are anything but empty

For us urban monks

we remain to walk the quiet out from our bones

in the dramatic fashion of a Hollywood set

cigarette plumes on the slow

fedoras on the tilt
crunched scarves

vested t-shirts

and a dark Levi strut

sneakers to the cool

for soft walk

and after your minutes of stage

your moment of James Dean

You feel the ground stirring restless under foot

the trees pave the way past the bopping

roses in colors of red, yellow and pink

thorning every passerby heading into the London pub

Hollywood’s left at the door

~

J st. is one of a few main streets that thumbs alongside the
avenues, which helps to make this time cap bearable

It’s also where the night reaches down for everyone to come

out from there dwellings to walk the bright lights

that hang on to the drunk sidewalks, glistening from the

swelling beers, falling from hand and mouth

of excited talk and bop

~

On a slant, you stroll the Capital Ave.

that’s too aged to sleep

crunchy and never at rest

pushing at both your sides

are these government buildings

that batter against one another

debating the importance

of one
of the other

of explanations

of declarations

deflections!

charges overlooked

people

pleading

calloused and the aged

~

officials to dictate

our country

for state

form wallets

for us to suffocate

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