Kanna-sama: I love this format the best because it is easier. Yes, I am lazy, but I thought that was obvious, what with me making so many one-shots.

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Title: My Street Corner

Rating: T

Genre: Poetry

Summary: Complete. A bar to the side, a parking lot near, my street corner is, the hot social place. Women smile at me, and the men will wink. It does not matter; always will this be, my dear street corner. Poetry.

Notes/Warnings: Companion piece to the short fiction, My Street Corner

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My Street Corner

There is a corner

That I truly love.

It is the corner

Where I reside at;

And if I did leave

I would be confused,

As this may be my

Only street corner.

A bar to the side

A parking lot near

My street corner is

The hot social place.

Women smile at me

And the men will wink.

It does not matter;

Always will this be

My dear street corner.

In autumn there’s no

Leaves on my dull street

Because we lack trees

Near my street corner.

I hear no crumpling

Of footsteps on leaves

But sirens instead

And dark Halloween.

In winter will I

Sit at my corner

Drinking light, warm ale

And looking to be

A homeless beggar.

But my thoughts are calmed;

Nothing will phase me

For here I will be

At my street corner.

There are no colours

On the gray buildings,

So how should I know

When spring is coming?

People are changing

From shirts to tank tops

And I see their skin

False tan or pale white.

And while they prepare

For the warm summer

Here is where I sit

On my street corner

Music is booming

Throughout the summer

I like it that way

At my street corner

Ice cream trucks go by

And children will scream

But I love it all

When I sit alone

At my street corner

I won’t share this place

With any others.

Why should I share it

When they do not share?

It always soothes me

In the wild downtown

Where my home cannot.

I talk to people

Here at my corner

While knowing that I

Could not talk elsewhere.

This is my corner

And always will be.

Where else could I go

To be fully free?

Is there any place

I could spread my wings?

The answer is no,

As I am aware;

So here shall I stay

At my street corner.

Finis