8:29 pm 12/31/08

a dog was eating out
of the garbage
down garfield alley:
glancing down underneath wacker
candles from some river restaurant
flickered on the river
from across the way.
the flames were loud
and cried with
the rolling waves
passing through it,
still there
and bouncing
next to a $20 tip
about to be blown
from underneath.
eat dog, eat
river wealth
and cry fat pigeon
underneath taxi wheel
too heavy to fly.
should have learned
from poverty about gluttony.