Sitting with my baby at Shakespeare s Java Bar & Grill The smell of cars going by the burning wax from candles @ sidewalk cafes the steel glass the enormous masonery & the big round windows of bankrupt hair-cutters the digital parking meters winking violations the people in the business suits sweats wingtips & Reeboks the hoop earrings & mini skirts thin trees in their little plots of dirt the buses the weeds the archways the needless shutters the car alarms chirping unmolested the pale blue sky & sickly palms the hum of tires the whine of motorcycles & the reflection in a black glass high-rise of the Sun distant muted techno-cool Fl x BL DE Lit