Man Owned Schnauzer


flat wooden stir sticks,
metal circular lopes,
bagels on ice,
the matches ran from ash trays.

coats on scabbed shoulders,
they held the door for a man in a wheelchair.

cars and chains that roll over logs on bridges.

no more yellow cabs,
the schnauzer dogs have been outlawed.

movies became stacks of Polaroid's
where pens turned to lead and the lost were seen as the found.

the found in an apartment bldg. that shines lights
with plant roots & fingernails are planted in dirt to grow
new metal signs that point to tomorrow.

for today failed at the grease that yesterday didn't mean to create.

as if the tempo could be the Taurus,
we and now raising our heads as the tornado signal shaves eye brows and the first man standing is chastised for owning a schnauzer.