Thursday, April 9, 2015

LANGUAGE LESSON

These outbursts—of early April rain
drops fall-
ing

thick,
loudly,
indiscriminate—onto 

brick 
and
vinyl siding—pelting

embossed tin 
and 
terracotta tiles—dripping from crooked

wood poles suspending 
rubberized wires, 
aluminum 

fence posts 
and wrought iron
fire stairs—and plunking 

against the white plastic sandwich-
board sign of the
shabby 

fat man taking 
piss in the 
back alley—seem to explain little

regarding whether 
he ought to 
feel either—happy or unhappy.