Even a Larry Merchant Talking Head Segment
Let's workshop this poem about the rich inner world of a homeless drunkard, whose disjointed centers of awareness narrate the daily life of his urban alley (from the mundane to the unsettling)
Even a Larry Merchant Talking Head Segment
The drunk’s fragmented selfhoods,
each through its own vantage,
color commentate
the alley cycles (from pigeons
shitting in the dawn to partygoers
peeing in the night),
spooking the forgotten child
inside dealers and blue-ball rapists
enough to move on.
