Orpheum’s doors are
open. Show-goers file out
into the cool night.
bus passes me by
any time from 8 to 9
always late for work
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Bayview Hunters Point
The forty-four is marked by
a line on the street
Crowded and quite loud.
Men discuss smoking blunts once
On the 14 line.
Tourists all line up.
And not one cable car goes
To the Tenderloin.
hipsters and remnants
of the Hayes once gone sit on
brown seats, real tired.
we run from the end
of the powell street station
to catch the car, ‘M’
Riding with my love
from the Richmond. We wander
through lonely downtown.
this city is cold.
on the waterfront by third.
The Mission is Life!

