Trash Dash: Manhattan

Trash dash on a two hour meter

A ham and cheese croissant and pilfer

Your heart which has grown fibrous —

Dry and cleansed of particulate love —

Full of granular lunacy and roiling

Pathic are your howls as I leverage

My full weight on you

Heat hurt hate

“Well, while I’m here I’ll

do the work—

and what’s the work?

To ease the pain of living.

Everything else, drunken

dumbshow.”

— Allen Ginsberg / “Memory Gardens”