Friday

we found a table
of unwanted books
next to a dumpster
on avenue b,
an artist among us
found dali's scissors,
a musician pocketed
the rolling stones,
a poet tired of words
discovered sign language,
an architect -- a manual
on how to build a firehouse,
a scientist -- on things that
happened after darwin,
and then a black woman
was rushing by, jumped in,
grabbed a book on the
extinction of the race
and disappeared
on the pages of
alphabet city

-- Marina Rubin