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~View From an Uptown Starbucks~

Rain won't hamper the cell-phoned suits
or pop-and-beer-can scroungers
as cardboard pleas for handouts
compete with pothole taxes snatched
by the jerk and shimmy
of the city's mile-deep fault.

The boom-bred girl of the corner knows
of no kind monkeys. The ones she sticks
into her tattooed thigh
scratch and bight as she tilts
back her head, mouth and mind
open to drops of junk-sick sky,

as sidewalk tunes of unknown minstrels
are blown or strummed towards Puget Sound
to be caught in dingy pigeon craws,
or sucked through straws stuck
in la-dee-da lattes
warm in the hands of those
with just the one domesticated chimp.