Make up your
mind, old
dog, is it?—
these furtive
stripes of mossy
sod—poking
up through
the new
cracks
forming—in almost
every
obdurate block
of mottled concrete
sidewalk under-
neath your feet
which are
guilty—
of being
so destructive-
ly stubborn
and
bossy—or is it
the other
way around?