On Sports Arena Boulevard

• Men cruise by with cans of
• beer and enough bravado
• to impress easy women.
• I ease my loneliness with
• my superiority.
• I am not envious.
• I have my thoughts.
• I sit in the ice-cream parlour
• and in the window
• see myself before
• the imperfections of
• the world.
• 25 October 1982 San Diego