The established homeless & the newly rich walk

while others park underground, & while trains are 

nearly empty these days they ready steady as always.

There are only 3,000 broncos left in the wild.

There’s a line outside the African grocery store & the 

seamstresses at New World Watch in Little Viet Nam

are sat at small tables sewing bright colored face masks.

Lush fields of grass stopped growing along the banks

A man is huddled in a backalley caged storage space

with his blankets & folding cart feet from the newly

completed & empty faux brick condos - 2 bed 2 bath .

of the Ohio river just less than a hundred years ago.

Someone has scribbled “adjust” in chalk on the grocery 

store next to the words “I’m sorry” & further “news”;

looking again the adjust now reads “AmeRican”.