NYC II Miles Budimir

THE CITY

Nietzsche the Swiss watch
salesman and

the holy Sikh man
selling lipstick whores
on Madison Avenue

bales of garbage
burst meat dreams

but ain’t that America!

eight million people
and still
I am all
alone.

Milenko Budimir

MICE

Contrary contraptions contradict
w/out speaking a word / only by
their presence / an intrusion of
silence can they convey what
purpose they conspire / left to
their own devices / to the
elements / untenanted by all
save minute proprietors / tiny
scavengers that infect and
manipulate what lies discarded
adapting to their world these
refugees of an industrial
revolution that never intended
such as they / while Man has
yet to build a better one they
evade and procreate to their
hearts content / living faerie
tale lives amidst the rust &
wood chips of fickle
civilization

KE