5th Ave Saturday

Slanted in slate              Etched
            tilted            Bewrought
at                            Besprigged
  the
      wind.

  An armful of collared shirts,
                        Saturday work
lugged to the dry cleaner
                cockapoo in tow
A week of Wednesdays
        Shirt   
          collar 
            tie 
              dickey
                dick 
                  jacket
Spectacles,
      testicles
            wallet
and     Watch!
      the quietest block
            the handsomest people
  out for a run
              (got to stay fit!)
    sporting the heralds (s)
of alma mater
  Occasionally
    a mar 
  The Jewish Museum disgorges
  a riotous and ungenteel bunch
    Not Jews 
        Perhaps
A janitorial staff in training?
  Some...social service work?

    salt of the earth my ass 

Repulsive
  Rude mechanicals

Immune to the waspish withery
  they summon
From the good and legitimate grey-cold edifices 

Or perhaps not so immune 
  They scatter quickly
    and loudly
      to the tunnels of the subway

Leaving me to reflect
  on the delicate irony
    of suffocation
      by
        sous vide bag

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