Walking to Meet Abe and Mark for Lunch in Hell's Kitchen

For years I’ve stood sentry

My profile by night

Brute threat and as false:

Perhaps you find it odd that a statue

Should speak to you now

As a dog. It’s new

For me too:

Clock of pumps

Loosie shuffler

Spilled oranges, newspaper sop

Little girl who named me:

Nicked and debauched

As I am

Dumb as a 2-liter bottle of RC Cola

None the wiser, no

None so careless

as the protected

as the loved