Poets' Practice Pad

By the booming strip,
on the balcony
sprawled on a chaise,
you watch
the vital current,
incipient and underway,
thinking of yourself as other
since anonymity is a human need.

The shocking fact:
every dollar you spend
at funky bars and restaurants
feeds the monster
with inert uniformity,
and when the deception of the savage
catches your eye,
you refuse the gamble,
like an actor crawling
inside a character.

Stunned faces,
at first flash of eye contact,
wonder about your
Fellinesque pilgrimage,
not grasping
the effects of
tricky winds, black flies,
and that truth depends upon
where you stand.

Still, a place that pains you
is a place you love,
because it has marked you
for good,
even if you haven't mastered
its game and gamble.





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