Urban Vignette
I’m perched on top
of these granite steps
close to the entrance
of Betty’s Used Books.
I pull out a sandwich
and forget where I am.
A pigeon swoops down
to remind me.
Three Square Fare at Hollow Home
I
Sally from Somewhere sent back her breakfast.
“I told them, over easy and look what they gave me:
Yolks running a marathon!
Can’t even fry us a bloody egg
and then they have the gall to say
we piss our pajamas and moan through meals—
As if we had a choice.
II
I don’t know.
He’s usually early.
Something’s up.
He’s seldom late.
Shall I ask the nurse
to save him a sandwich?
III
You could smell sickness &
Pine-Sol & canned green peas
the instant you got past the lobby.
Most of the lifers
were still at their meals
when we spotted Aunt Lucy
already at dessert,
spooning up the remnants
of her crumble and cream.
The Dicker of Wakefield
When everything
you try
goes wrong.
When words
are worse
for loss.
Remember
Jams,
the Ginger Man,
sends
dick pics
to his boss.
Bio: Frank William Finney is a Massachusetts poet and retired lecturer who taught literature in Thailand from 1995 to 2020. He is a joint winner of the Letter Review Prize in Poetry (May-June 2023). His poems have appeared in numerous journals including Door is a Jar, Moss Piglet, and Slipstream. His chapbook The Folding of the Wings was published in 2022.
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