Tonight's Poet Corner: Northwestern Urban Life
Northwestern Urban Life
by Belinda Roddie
To eat artisan doughnuts in Portland
and wear jackets woven with steel!
We talk about love while hipsters patrol
the streets, and unshaven Nazis try
to make themselves relevant again
before predictably getting punched
in their crooked, bigoted jaws.
There'll be music at the bar next door,
with cocktails twice as expensive as
the ones I can prepare at home. Check
out Malcolm's new tattoo: He got it
after his boyfriend broke up with him,
to flaunt his new independence like
freshly sprouted eagle's wings.
The nights are getting warmer these days;
there's never enough rain. You and I
will leave footprints on the rainbow
crosswalk, and we'll dwell in our
compact spaces without fear of judgment.
by Belinda Roddie
To eat artisan doughnuts in Portland
and wear jackets woven with steel!
We talk about love while hipsters patrol
the streets, and unshaven Nazis try
to make themselves relevant again
before predictably getting punched
in their crooked, bigoted jaws.
There'll be music at the bar next door,
with cocktails twice as expensive as
the ones I can prepare at home. Check
out Malcolm's new tattoo: He got it
after his boyfriend broke up with him,
to flaunt his new independence like
freshly sprouted eagle's wings.
The nights are getting warmer these days;
there's never enough rain. You and I
will leave footprints on the rainbow
crosswalk, and we'll dwell in our
compact spaces without fear of judgment.
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