smeared black ink: your palms are sweaty and i'm

barely listening to last demands

i'm staring at the asphalt wondering what's buried

underneath where i am



i'll wear my badge: a vinyl sticker with big block

letters adherent to my chest

that tells your new friends i am a visitor here: i

am not permanent

and the only thing keeping me dry is where i am



you seem so out of context in this gaudy apartment

complex

a stranger with your door key explaining that i

am just visiting

and i am finally seeing why i was the one worth

leaving



d.c. sleeps alone tonight



you seem so out of contect in this gaudy apartment

complex

a stranger with your door key explaining that i

am just visiting

and i am finally seeing why i was the one worth

leaving

the district sleeps alone tonight after the bars turn

out their lights

and send the autos swerving into the loneliest

evening

and i am finally seeing why i was the one worth

leaving