David Walker Poet Rhyme

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The Morning View From Snappy Shine

The Morning View from Snappy Shine
David J Walker
 
7 AM
and the doors
 
of Snappy Shine
Are open
 
The lights turned
on for the
 
Artists already at work in
Palettes of kiwi and spit
 
Lawyers and Bankers await
Their turn for their
 
Usual seat with
Greetings passed
 
to the Rhythm of
rag-men relaxed
 
Skillfully mixing politics with spit
and blackened wax
 
The Friday morning crowd of
Gumshoe salesmen and Lawyers
 
Tread  one-way streets
Surrounding the
 
County Courthouse lawn
Dreading rejection
 
Shopkeepers sweep the stoops
Of discount shoe stores
 
While bootmakers raise their
Awnings
 
 
Advertising salesmen find new ways
To tell the same old lies
 
A million feet  
Have pound these brick streets
 
And saved every lead
of each contract let
 
Reporters crowd the
Courtroom corridors
 
hoping to vet the next
breaking story before
 
the deadline of the
noon news edition
 
 Just Down the street off Broadway
A few blocks Away
 
The Greyhound Bus Station lunch counter is
Busy with breakfast for arriving passengers
 
Meanwhile the corner café`
Across the street from Snappy shine
 
Clears its tables
Readied for the coming lunch run

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