Xcp:  Streetnotes: Summer  2003
Streetnotes  Summer 2003 xcp

 
 
Blagovesta Momchedjikova
 

Rain in the City
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
a thousand
dollar hooker
went down
to ten bucks
for me
but still 
i said, no, 
man, 
a homeless guy
broadcasts 
his story
on the 
N train. 

2 raindrops
sneak out of 
a closed umbrella 
behind me,
and chase each
other down
my left 
leg all 
the way 
to my 
shoe,
warm up & 
doze off
there. 
 

but outside 
a cold puddle
jumps in -- 
startled 
by a 
rushing cab -- 
& wakes 
them up.
hide in 
the jeans pocket
of the Gap girl
on the huge 5th 
avenue ad,
they say,
not in our shoe -- 
it’s way too 
small 
for you!


 


 
 


  (c)Blagovesta Momchedjikova 2003


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