Wednesday evening on a Downtown E1
.Four foreigners:
pushy.
scared.
silent.
..2 Latinas.
tight jeans.
necklaces. rings.
...One in a long leather jacket
-- highly energized
Her food still in its alumninum container with white cardboard covering
...The other in a jean jacket, big brown tinted sunglasses halfway down her nose, jaw slack,
a piece of onion stuck to the left side of her garish brick-red painted mouth
slurring words and falling alseep
Is she on Heroine?
("Heroine"*)
(*romance novels large breasted women in slightly undone peasant shirts, hair carlessly tossed, flowing praire skirts...and brutalgentalstrong men sweeping them off their feet)
She wraps her grilled-meat-and-onions-on-a-roll in two napkins
They move to the far end of the car.
away from me
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A black man enters. Flashy mustard-yellow suit. Mustard yellow leather dress shoes.
"Make someone happy to day, A rose makes someone hap-py. A rose brings a smile to someone. Make someone hap-py to day"
he wheels a blue wire shopping cart behind him.
silk red & pink carnation roses
wrapped in clear cellophane with blue flower border
He came From a country to Make It Here.
he's trying to Make a Living.
This is What He is Doing.
He Passes.
a medium-sized, light-brown rabbit pokes its head out of a brown paper bag.
!
it's on a blue leash
giddy laughter bursts forth from me. how delightful! love. wonder. laughter. excitment. a Bunny Rabbit! he has a bunny rabbit as a pet!
my stop.
Thursday morning , walking down Park Avenue South2
Brows furrowed,
Lips pursed,
Jaws clenched.
Blistered toes,
Fallen arches,
Shin splints.
Screecing wheels,
Jack hammers,
Horns,
Sirens.
24/7
One hand holds Coffee
(..............................................light/dark/sweet/designer)
Other hands hold a Cigarette
"...remember to RELAX your JAW...release the tension..."
1 April 29, 1998. 2 April 30, 1998