walking past the high fence
on the street u all used to play on;
climbing over it
to the other side
to meet Cory; she looked like a girl
& wore her hair long even then
she's not the same girl
she was then; living on Staten Island
w/ her attorney wife
picking a future from the gutter w/ a dollar;
Carmen came in already high
Cindi lost beside the widow
wondering why clouds were so high &
how they smelled;
like bird farts she thought
Cory in the basement making out
w/ the 15yo gay Boy Scout;
the world's last newspaper boy;
he won't make
Eagle Scout
when he quits
everything to follow her to Frisco