Wednesday, January 31, 2007

I think I've heard this before

Haven’t you seen them
Galumphing down Sunset,
Fumbling their way
In and out of our lives,
Collecting like bags of trash
At Starbucks or Coffee Bean?

Haven’t you seen
Long jeweled fingers
Snubbing out cigarettes
Like failed endeavors?
Flicking away the butts
And reading the fortunes
From cookies at Hoy’s Wok?

I haven’t quite known them all,
But I’ve heard jabbering pie holes
In empty apartments,
Flapping gums
On restaurant patios,
Blathering blow-hards bloviating
Over a latte
At Starbucks or Coffee Bean.
All talking about something
Someone else was
just talking about.

1 comment:

  1. OK, I like this one. I especially like the title and your invented words.

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