Jay Passer- A Poem

I LIKE TO FORGET

I like to forget

that I’m human animation

so I suck down vodka

mouth of alley at North Beach

While commerce

commences

and gravediggers

hammer at the 

streets

Something

rising from the dregs

From the ashes

Broke bottles

and cigarette butts

Something noxious and disturbing

The delivery trucks

slaughtered swine and

Chinese tchotchkes

I’m not sure I know what it is

Neither do the

tourists

or the crows

or the rats

Everything stumbling around in the 

odium

of broad daylight