Bloused camo pants
spit shined Birkenstocks
Led Zeppelin T-shirt
a once virile body
alcohol wasted.
Drug addled mind
inside a ponytail
from 1972
New Mexico commune
by red cliffs.
Walking through
silent city streets reciting
Proust
Baudelaire
Burroughs
Kerouac
Frost
verses and cantos
keep him alive . . . insane.
A tiny sparrow
named Juno
searches for crumbs
in a dark alley.