Troop Bazaar or The Street That I Live On
    Only on Sundays is the street   neither drunk on traffic   nor binged on smoke.     Though its stale breath   still reeks of noise   and through its slurred speech   drip faint echoes of its quaintness.     In the tenuous silence   numbness of the facades melt   and edifices bellow   the wrinkles of haphazardness.     Houses squat like   decrepit old men,   that have cataract ridden   dead eyes for windows   with pigeon poop   in their conjunctiva.     And if you were searching   for the hints of humanity   behind those sooty eyes,   you would find shadows   whose light was the mound of filth   piled on the bosom of the street.     Unshackled by the din,   wails from the trash   convey to the sleeping gods above   of the desire for freedom   of the shadows of men.     At times, moon blossoms   at the end of the street,   but then shies away   from the psychedelic runes   of the shop fronts.     But the street pines away,   and in its reveries,   dreads the tumult   of a Monday morn...