3.15.2007

Dufferin to Spadina on King

Somehow I can't get Blogger to retain any of the formating of text. This poem should have a lot more complicated formating, but I think it works ok without it too. I wrote it over a couple of weeks riding the streetcar to work.



puma

shoe

tracks through

the

muddy

cigarette

snow

babbling

babylonians

babel


WAITING


for the third streetcar


HOPING


its nice and juicy always surprised when it isn’t


BUSY


he spreads his knees but feels kinda lonely, in a state this morning, moving like monkeys, like penguins, like


STORKS


disappointment on their polished angular faces, disapproving of the snowbanks they step grimly over with


COFFEE


Cultures Collide: white lids, brown lids, black lids, may yourbucks always be starbucks, your second cup always better than your coffee


TIME


on sunday morning coffee in one hand, pram in the other, her boots are made of spanish spanish


LEATHER


none of this pleather bullshit! Never underestimate a pregnant woman! She’s got a pretty face, but have you seen her


FEET


shuffling, he cuts through the crowd with a queens quarterly


and

alights down

amongst

the

babel --

snow

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