Morning80216

This morning starts soupy
with buildings emerging like 
oyster crackers slowly rising 
out of the broth
while lights go out 
one by anxious one 
all around the city 
like hopeful dogs at
the kitchen restaurant door 
when at last they 
abandon hope of morsels 
as more and more 
cars zoom this way 
and that like salmon 
swimming upstream avoiding grizzlies 
uncertain as to why 
but knowing they must
go wherever they go