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Portland

Raud Kennedy

A man in a printed flower dress,
a winter coat with a faux fur hood,
pushes a Safeway shopping cart
through the rain down Broadway.
Another man, sideburns to his jaw,
a navy suit jacket over dungarees,
reads the ads for teeth whitener
in a Fred Meyer’s newspaper insert
like they were stock quotes.
He moves around the intersection,
a minute hand going corner to corner,
acting out this same tableau.
A bearded lady in running shoes
passes with her dachshunds.
Lyndon Johnson, black as a mortician.
A homeless man as a gnome.
No, it is a gnome. Homeless.



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