Poem: rideau St.

thirty six dollars for make up
tear in the panel of a car
   too close together

4 dollars for an hour
parked
   ,for a walk down
rideau
st.

16 left in the bank.

12 minutes at the record shop,    10 thinking about _____

more time and more time
spent.
until there was nothing left
but a loan given, then
owed.

I tell him:

even the rain knows my name.