There was no TFIA Shorty

  statue in the park 

     the old Italians had died and 

  so had the newspaper L'Italia

      the children who hid to avoid pushing

    TFIA Shorty's wheelchair had grown up-

One was a lawyer in the financial district

  One worked in his brother's fish market

 One was a heroin addict in the Sunset

The last one had become a used car salesman 

  In Brisbane

RB's ghost wanders Geary street 

  holding a shotgun and complaining 

about the flies