times square

Sitting
Overlooking all the people down below.
Overlooking that he died
yesterday.
Over looking for now
because we can.

Green, yellow, red
green yellow red:
city metronomes;
while other lights
trickle
down,
cross buildings:
tell us what we want
what we need -

I think I need pizza.
We turn a corner: more lights.
I think I need lobster.
I ____ I need cologne -
a lot of cologne.

Footsteps are heard as one,
together with the lives of
legs to which they belong.

Faces swirl, multiplied,
doubled by store windows
smeared together:
One after another one after another one after one after another.

I want to sit down.
I want us to sit down.
You, and me, and him
and them and her and he
and she and
all of us together,
So that all of it will


Stop swirling, smearing, dripping,
green, yellow, red
red, yellow, green
walk, yield,
yell (cry) honk

No one hears (the sound) as it
trickles
down
amidst swirling, swearing, smearing
spinning, spinning, swirling, smearing

until it makes you sick
makes you want to sit down
catch your breath
close your eyes
(cry).

It doesn't stop.

So you yell,
and I spin.

Yell and spin and swirl and cry and swear and smear and honk and
Yell spin swirl cry swear smear honk
Yellspinswirlcryswearsmearhonk
Yellspinswirlswearsmearhonk

Until it doesn’t matter what gets lost
between yelling and honking
and you aren't sick anymore
and you never sit down
and you're looking around,

looking over the people on the ground
looking over that he died
just yesterday.