Thursday 9 April 2015

8/30! Addison Dispatch #4!

That molson ice pile by 306 hasn't moved for two days. The dog in 312 won't shut up

but a markered note offers to shut the bitch up in exclamation points. Seriously on
behalf of us all
shut the bitch
up.                                                    (with wire, with cloroform, with a baseball bat)

Head into the glass walls, Shane remarks that the max income requirements 
(a refreshing change)
would be considered middle class
(I thought we'd disappeared!)
                                                       in another city. In another city, I wouldn't need the requirements. I am no cigar maven, flicking his ash out against a movie about new york. A skyline in highlights that silences family who don't understand; like a movie star swoop from one frame to the next, the smith, columbia, municipal, hey.

The man in the stairwell isn't moving. Isn't smiling. Is yelling. Is swaying. Is dancing. Can of hurricane ice-- must be a different guy. Howling, screaming, dancing, the lady behind me asks if she can tell him to get the fuck out of the way or is that racist. The man behind her shouts "racist nothing," falls dick forward, they both hit two walls before landing. I shrink into walls.

Hammers on the left side. Drills on the right. Sirens every day. Not our fault. Not theirs.
Stacking piles of earplugs. New eyemasks. Prop up the bed with old hymnals. Shut down the door
with strings of tape. 

The walls are thin when you're trying to sleep, thick when you need help--
(is that you,
mark?
I was hoping you were dead, cussing out 
                                                     your mother
one last time in your braindead half-drawl
as they drove you to a 
landfill where scum like you grows 
                                                and
dies)

these heights bring out the best. Nod for a year at the lease-signer before
she remembers your name, 
(you are drunk, screaming down the hall
pulling
the fire alarm--
won't make up for no coats
or morning workouts--)

possibly for the best.

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