Allegro Non Molto:

beer can rolling in the gutter

the maladroit caterwaul of a drunk

paying bittersweet homage to Tony Bennett

the shouting match between two cars

jockeying for position in a single lane

the faint hiss of sewer's seduction

the glistening shrill of buses screeching into

terminals

Adagio:

the whoomp whoomp whoomp

of thundering rap bass

the malicious, thoughtless throw downs

between obscenity gunslingers

the unbalanced paraphrasing of

quickly snapped police beacons

newspaper panhandlers

spinning propaganda for fifty cents a pop

Allegro:

the crinkle of fast food bags

people eating on the lam

urban clergy holding mass on street corners

protesting man's promiscuity on behalf of God

the cacophony of wicked machinery

beguiling the city in the name of progress