Everyone’s doing the afternoon dance

Girls stroll
in lesser pants
     see-thru tops

Guys blare music
beats rattle steel
     below their feet.

Young boy & friend roll,
wind whipping between
old men & women
     clinging to strollers

Loud horns, throaty smog
Authourity watches
     in mirrored sunglasses

Shock of summer’s appoarch

Something was going to happen
Everyone could hear it, something big
     was going to happen

We could all feel the thrust of humidity
&
We all knew we were right.

–Jonathan Braun