Rent Hike
Bum shit creamed
on the bird-shit plexiglass
of a semiurban bus shelter,
the sideways ass cheeks
behind it locked open
for morning pedestrians
like a human face distorted
in its flattening press
against a window pane.
This poem is unpublished
Photo: donciler.medium.com/trimet-bus-review-line-8-c7e0e136d7a9