pith…

Up in the pent apartment,
scarcely a story
away from an incidental
street, flush from another
neighborhood murder, at odds again
with the alleged moon. Hungry
but out of the essential soup, so walking
the way of all flesh
to the quick mart for coffee and reports in Arabic.
A targeted buyer of bottles and noodles
and improved antacids, protected from little
in frayed tan [...]