INTERSECTION
INTERSECTION
A woman in a motorized wheelchair
crosses the street
pulling behind her
a man in a non-motorized wheelchair.
The woman stares out straight ahead
seeming not to notice the man
as if he is a traveling water skier
hitched to a barge
too set in its course to care.
As he crosses he shoots me a sly thumbs up.
“Luxury.”
He says.
“The only way to go”
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A man sits on a box
The man holds a sign.
The sign reads:
“Hungry. Homeless. Anything helps.”
I roll down my window
“I have a salad. Would you like a salad?”
I ask.
“No.” He says.
“I’m not really a salad person.”
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A boy on a skateboard
argues with a boy on a scooter
about the price a girl at school would charge
for naked pictures
to post online
A third boy arrives
singing the chorus to Radiohead’s “Creep.”
He is carrying a basketball
which after being called fat
he throws as hard as he can at the head of the boy on the scooter.
The boy on the scooter ducks
and the ball bounces off the windshield of a taxi cab.
The boys scatter.