strawberries cherries & an angel's kiss in spring

[ [ busstop ] ]
date: Oct. 02, 2002
time: 4:41 pm

october second
downtown warm breeze flash
yank metro wave
worn foot beats in
greyed pavement
pass asian market
swelling smell fish/
fruit gummies/
hello kitty yan yan/
redlight/walk
pink parking garage
graffitied dumpster
old pickup truck
blue nylons
uniforms and
uniforms/.
bus stop/ busstops
same
marine bluey
poking carpeted seats
scratch in a skirt.
and this weary mint and sweat smell.
sit across from weathered man
leathery skin and faded tattoos
beautiful white
pure white hair/ long and stringing
eyelids leaning over gunmetal glasses.
another/ w/ her head against the
window
a double from here - the reflection
gazing/grazing through herself
purple pouty lips
and skin like tar.
stop: park st/lincoln high
he steps in/ see him every day
dirty white chucks
w/ ballpoint scribble
"A" on the toe.
he has 'dirtynumb angel boy' hair
blonde and
so perfectly strange
he is a willow,
slumping over itchy aqua
seat in the back/
pull the cord/ my stop/
intercom 'bus number eighty one//vallco fashion park'
streetcross/redlight/walk:
home.
lean against blue fence in backyard
under-eye-circles
lean
inhaling deep on forbidden
cigarette
and thinking
of all this
everyday
so perfectly strange//
strangers.

//ah!-lex

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