Auspicious

Putting life on the back burner
Stuck in traffic; can't budge
Big flatbed truck loaded with two by fours
Smell of tar and rubber and exhaust fumes
Slight headache; watching the gas gauge
Should've got gas back there

Sweaters and museums
Dogs and dumpsters
Gasoline and newly tarred roads
Chinatown
Will work for food
Unattended construction site
Pedestrians wearing scrubs

Shoes, makeup, getting her nails done
Forty minutes of cardio
Go for forty five
Should order the salad
But it won't fill me like the tuna sandwich

Grand Canyon
Walden Pond
Piccadilly Circus
The Louvre
Katmandu
Dead end street in Waltham, MA

Dead man walking
High fidelity
Quite frankly
Utterly reprehensible

Savoring the moment
Delicious
Shutting out the mundane
Ascending beyond the petty
The databases
The chocolates in the lunch room
The men’s room in need of ventilation
The all-important client deliverables

How ya doin, sir? Can I help you?
Spit and dog piss on the concrete

So like the dreams
Where I cry out and can not be heard
I speak to the deaf
They don’t get it
They respond to what’s in their own heads
I try to communicate it in different ways
So they create more walls
I point to the main road
So they try harder to avoid it

Why?

Alone with the sweetness
That cannot be shared
The sadness dissipates
I become drenched with tranquility