Street BJ

Street BJ

Look, this is nuts, I know

but change is brewing

after the economic crunch

of the past few years.

Making your way

through the urban bourbon streets

on some half-baked quest 

for dastardly mash

and Miz Jelena’s Sweet Potato Pie;

you are more likely to

end up with 

your coffee coffee buzzbuzzbuzz

saying

goodbye yellow brick road

to the

sugar plum, wavy gravy 

street people that abide

on the cool Britannia

side of life.

On the streets,

it's hard to imagine whirled peace

like a Sufi spinning in ecstasy,

but making your own way

through the urban jumble

of sights, sounds and smells

deserves a reward, even if only...

... an ice cream cone.

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A bit of whimsy prompted by some names of Ben & Jerry Ice Cream flavors, shared with those cone lickers over at DVerse Poets.

©2022 Christopher Reilley 

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