the heat
again today
I moved to
San Francisco
to escape the
dry heat of the
California hill country
luckily I was
I was laid off
from my job as
second coal man
at the furnaces
of Purgatory
now I lay in bed
with the windows open
and feel
the cool breeze
I drink from a red
plastic cup filled
with fizzy water
and write bad
poems

2004