for Victor Poison-Tete, and, in memory of Cary Gevanter

gazing at the mirror
pancho villa swears
shaking bloody tweezers
yanking out nasal hairs

two doors down a homeless psycho
sprawls across filthy stairs
uptight businessmen in suits
no one looks and no one cares

hello and welcome to brooklyn

no escape from van brunt station
where the gaunt and deeply troubled
can't escape situations

who would know about this urchin
pulling down his underwear
hopelessly neurotic people
wobbling down the street

filthy and quixotic billboard
dangles from a culvert creaking

hello and welcome to brooklyn

dim bulb workers lurching in
commuter trains that disappear
stations packed with lonely people
puddled on the concrete / fear

paranoids imagining
sudden threats to life and limb
suffocating many ways
this home to pimps and heart disorders

hello and welcome to brooklyn

crazed curmudgeons on the ropes
gallivanting comatose
monsters messing coalescing
masters of a concrete maze
dredging up from subway funnels
through a toothless mindless haze

hello and welcome to brooklyn







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