Park Benches, A Hostile Wind, and No One Cowering
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Outside the car door
there are park benches
littered with the debris
of homeless men;
topless and rolling flesh
she opens the door,
walking past them.

There is a fight
over orange juice,
and these men
have got no teeth.
When I walk back
the orange juice
is all over the floor
and the one man
is on the bench
crying.

Am I invisible yet?
Who is watching
with me? Is it you,
in me, seeing things
through my eyes? Am
I there with you, yet?

This city tears away at skin
until I am cellophane plastic
clear and light motion.
I am only invisible
when you see them and say
"If only you were here, now...."

And you?
You are invisible,
always.


-e.














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