At late morning
His sorting letters completed
As an envisaged task
The poet meets his spouse
At a coffee shop downtown
A short walk away.
In spite of differences
He supports his spouse
With company and shared
Food will taste that much
Better.
People rush past the huge
Shopfronts
Overlooking Rotenturmstraße
Foreigners. Visitors. Tourists
Pass like the salmon swimming
Upstream in Canada
But not stopped here by
Hindrances –
In spite of revamping the
Famous shopping street
Amidst fine dust from digging
And offloading sand and stone
For prepping the sublayers
To take new flagstones –
Well-fed people.
Sexy teens in their short cut
Short jeans.
Bearded fellows.
Head-scarfed women.
Short dresses.
Floor-long dresses.
Miniskirts.
Groups of tourists from the
Far East
Unperturbed by the noisy
And dusty building activities.
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ZJG-POetry’19.