Greyhound San Jose

small boy at a game kiosk vending machines that smell stale separate stairways climbing up to hombres and mujeres a ticket vendor chained to his desk wearing shiny black shoes below wasted legs mandatory alcoholic in checked shirt with faded vomit spots the homeless sober bearded man Safeway trolley overflowing with trash from a lifetime of buses come and gone helpline poster for the runaways twelve to twenty one if their revolution is done a police cruiser wrapped around a profusion of cigarette butts shapely thighs in halogen white outside the neighborhood dance club buses are late people wait the clock strikes one