curbside poetry
push push through the crowd
when with feels without
renounce hollowed doubt
we are out there
the searched and the seen
or somewhere there in-between
as suspect as it seems
we are out there
looking almost like you
looking almost at you
from shy-side eyes akin survives
in those disguised in suites and ties
from under bridges shamed estranged
nobodies buried in loose change
from receding stares in speeding cars
some cloaked in smoke in seedy bars
from quiet homes
alone to discover
the fact their backs
only face each other
looking almost at you
looking almost like you
and their numbers just grow
and most will hide
except the man on the curb
nothing keeps him inside
under the moonlight with his phone
thumbs typing like lightning
someday they might ask
what he’s always out writing