sitting in dark…
listening…
rain beats on rooftops…
streets shine…
cars drive past…

and down the hall loud music is played…
noise really…
a towel under the doorway…
smell of kush…
grown men yell at a video game…

train wails…
taking hobos to another town…
cigarette butts left behind…
bottles of brandy…
cheap kind…

i wait in night…
taking it all in…
sounds of a city…
a truck rolls down alleyways…
watching from a perch…

toilet runs…
old man wheezes…
I reach for you and you are not there…
shadows cast on white walls…
singular…this life is singular…

sitting in dark…
listening…
rain beats on rooftops…
streets shine…
cars drive past…