7 a.m.
Hempstead is still asleep.
Up and down Delaware Place cars rest
angled against resistance.
Vermont Avenue waits anxiously for its urban rooster -
The Crackhead of the Month
screams his lullaby,
"DADDY'S HOME!"
The dogs bark -
alarmed, they announce his ineffective danger.
Koji has fallen fast in love
with a plushie white princess coat.
To say any less would do our smitten
kitten an injustice.
At 7 a.m. when Hempstead still sleeps,
before gunshots greet the sun,
it is good to know that love exists -
even in The Ghetto.
Suzi lives in the Mango Mansion located in the ghetto of Long Island. She shares a house with various people who do various things and animals who also do other different various things. She has been published in the anthology, Feeling is First.
