February 7, 2006

Every day I nourish illusion
I live in San Francisco
I take the bus
I board the bus
I ride the bus
I travel by bus
I see the hapless, the
hopeless, the haveless
the bored, the bald, the
fat, the faces covered with
dermatological
horrors --
the skinny, the tattoos, the
cursed, the students
plugged-in, the
aged
whose next stop is
Death
Oblivion
or
Apotheosis

-- Jeff Wietor