Sidewalk cardtables along Woodin Ave
Bake sale in front of the quilting store
benefitting a women's 2 year college
girl selling Manga drawings.
outside Vogue Coffee/Wine bar the boy
drawing on computer describes his
process using artistic wrist motions. A man
at a Worlitzer sings too softly to hear
near the Kelly's Hardware table
humped with four dollar throwaway
tools and glass mugs with apple logos.
Culinary Apple's apple logo mugs
face them across the street where
another man pushing fifty in Pendleton
plaid shirt sings "It Ain't Me Babe."
I'm sure this used to work for him
but the scrubby beard's gone roan
and I don't think anybody's going home
with him tonight. We're here for
the movie at the Ruby, named for
a daughter who went missing
in her twenties in the twenties.
New seats are on order, but if they
don't come in the next five weeks,
it'll be fall before they're installed.
Seven day showing schedule starts
June 13. We come out of the movie
at eight to a dimming sky and
awkward street life. The skinny girl
inking Manga drawings outside Radio Shack
folds in card table legs as her father
presses her computer gear to his chest,
opens the door to his Ranger. The live
woman singer has a nice folky sound,
but the amp is cranked too loud
at the Vogue. After we walk to Safeway
for cereal and strawberries, we return
to sit just inside the sidewalk below
the retracted glass wall garage door.
A goateed man comes from behind
the bar and yells into the mic something
about tips. The singer, already a little
embarrassed, is standing in front
of the amplifier and does an automatic
recoil she attempts to cover by
strumming the chords for her next song.
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