sobbing clouds
storm off
in a fit of pique

Mom neatly packing
Leftover rice - down the road
Orphaned ducklings await dinner

strip mall church
selling rosaries
and hope

Jimmy Buffet crackles, harmonizing
With undertones of desperation
- “Please continue to hold”

sidewalk ants
faire la bise
- celebrate spilt soda

5pm
hostile rain
strikes my cheeks

crimps  my pressed
white collar
in icy fists

shakes my shoulders
like a soggy ***
of singles at Venus

with the violence
of all-consuming
yesterdays
  
drips down my ear
with the seduction
and precision
of a diamond blade

licks,
moans,
thunderously shouts
  
     "WAKE UP"

never thought I’d go out this way
bursting colors turn to gray
belly up in a pet smart display