Living in the House of Change

By Earle Thompson

Woke up in the morning

only with the end
of this line.
    Cowen Park,
the new frontier,
ferns sheltering me
from the rain, giving me
warmth.
Heard the University
Street Fair, Jerry
a.k.a. Jeri Curl, still danced
in the street
w/ Mick Jagger--
lips mouthing the label
of an empty Rolling
Stone beer bottle.
      Startled
chipmunk froze
    a friend Sasquatch
stopped,
belched and farted.
        Existentialism
is nothin' new
as Elvis sang of April:
Don't be cruel!
    Let me start again
& get my feet back on
the street.

11 June 1993