oct 15

Steve Wallit has that mean lefty loop
-- a hook, really, that aims for the solar plexus
and Bob Saperstein has a metal meter ruler
likes the Acoustic and goes on his knees
to confirm American Accuracy
Ilya and Vlad could hardly give a shrug
at 30 inches, and Steve says,
why don't you care about this?
hands on his hips
drops a ten for the night and leaves.
Alex comes in early almost every day,
is a maintenance mechanic now,
used to be a professional boxer, I ask him,
almost as a tease, for lessons.
Swivel around
Are you not cold? I ask Steve and he asks me
Do you think it'll last? The club? Everything
is off the record.

but what difference does
in October more than
some houses
American comic-spirit
dictionary, style, in that
verse, opens

an example in mind
I cross the hundred-foot
from an audience of a child