parked like a limping jalopy on an amputee park bench. watching young soft girls sell hard against the boulevard so they can do smack out back with the white trash boys who size me up. hats crooked and backward like their mothers teeth and their own beliefs. slouching and leaning in their stride like two drunken penguins shuffling home from the ice bar, fighting over fish sticks--no real threat to any one but themselves. their drawn out skinny arms with bad backs and barroom tattoos already turning blue. this is our future--or part of it. while a young couple breezes by both with their noses buried in iphones. oblivious to anything outside their happy little bubble.