"best of" I hate summer poem of the day 08.11.16

nyc summer

hopscotching shady sides of the street

that i know better than train times

the sidewalks a mess of garbage strewn

the smell of rotten bananas, stale beer

dog shit, moldy cardboard and rancid meat

zigzagging fat tourists taking pictures

of ISIS landmarks and over-priced

dirty water dogs and pizza

tossing their trash to the pavement

because it seems like the thing to do here

new york, new york, like a sinatra song

times square lit up like a belligerent drunk

another nyc summer in the shit

where murder seems entirely plausible

the idea of spending years in corporate prisons

pounding ass, pounding patties for mcdonald’s

seems preferable to one more day on these streets

sweating for five hours straight

sweating from sun up to sun down

packed on work trains like cattle trains

singing the millennium blues to the homeless

waiting for the climate to change completely

burry all of this madness in the deluge of salt water

then nothing left to do here in gotham but

swim swim swim swim swim for the dollar.

                                                06.24.15