sleeping to talk radio

Jeremy Herman

fran gives her slant on
seders featuring cultural diversity, 
argues with the lawyer over 
housing for the mentally ill to win approval
from albany foremen who say race
split jurors  in case of woman inured by collapsing 
façade, another scare in times square.

another jury awards paralyzed brothers 104 million
resurrects crack gang cracked with 24 arrests; issues
tighter rules deporting immigrant convicts
and urges first steps toward natural gas, 
a conversion.
of 3 whites convicted of striking black man – a striking 
teacher ordered back to work fatally stricken
by stolen car upon
resisting orders by judge

and the mayor, all the while, is standing still
on steps of stone as he pontificates qualities of natural
gas, expels natural gas
(a conversion) aimed uptown;
while new york's finest assemble
downtown with plungers, ready to aid and
assist those who may resist the reform:
the last tempation of neon mickey
along eighth avenue