Found Poem
Location: Bagel café
Source: words on signs, walls, windows

FROM THE INSIDE
9/20/03

This is girl to girl:
As lovely
As jewelry
And flowers
Can be
Displayed beneath
Red signs that read
OPEN and SALE
Nothing is free
Unless you are
Just looking


So steal a space
In Public Parking
Taste the atmospheres
Of seven California summers
On the water.
Save lives every morning
With the note of a lost plie
—simply smile
from behind
Backwards OPEN signs
when blue blurs fade into
clear sharp shapes
and the day burns brighter
in our eyes.