she lived alone by the little glass window on the 12th floor always open seeing every color and stain of urban life flashing below across the courtyard
black, white, yellow, brown and a redhead going down the block for a ghetto special 4 chicken wings and fries
and fly uncle johnny in his trench-coat and superslims running paper slips to the bodega on the corner of broadway and 5th
and little blues babies in ponytails doing the double-dutch hustle a skip and **** away from motherhood
and radio raheems peddling mix tapes, joints and conspiracies to mis-educated teens flashing silver grills, c's and black stones under high-top fades and fro's