RAISED SUN III

Girl sits down in front

Her hair done up like expensive fruit

Outside the upper deck

A small hurricane picks up the many shoes

And deposits them

Further down the street

Behind me the people chatter

Like skeletons in red cars on rocky roads

Their jaws moving and clicking

Only a long plume of exhaust emitted

Mike Bones screws his fingernails into his palms

The buildings rise like vertical trains

None wave as they go by