ON CAMBRIDGE STREET

Listening as a Beat
to Coltrane's "Evidence"
toughening out my sax
on Cambridge Street
meeting a cat
who despised
popular culture
want ads
writer's colonies
second hand clothes
straight ex cons
extras in cinema verite
under or over eaters
water bed wetters
the posthumous dead
chauvinists,
universalists
ex priests
the three stooges
Cagney,
Bette Davis
post code film noirs
dishy suburbanites
Turkish bath conversations
now playing smooth jazz,
wanting nothing but song.