it's actually been really nice here

to elsie:
the summer products of america
go stircrazy--
college folk from pennsyltucky

or the
hispanic central end of
jersey
with its isolate bars and

trainstations, it's amputee-winos, thieves
old names
and boredom between

devil-may-care boys who have taken to
trainhopping
out of sheer lust of street-cred--

and young dirt punks, bathed
in filth
from monday to saturday

to be tricked out that night
with iPods
from imaginations which have no

imaginations to give them
character
but flutter and flaunt

sheer rags--succumbing without
emotion
saved
numbed terror

under some hedge of cherry-blossom
or salvia--
which they cannot express--



okay okay i'll stop!
i'm just kidding anyway