A Poem by Amy Beeder...

Cabezón
by Amy Beeder

I see you shuffle up Washington Street   

whenever I am driving much too fast:   

you, chub & bug-eyed, jaw like a loaf   

hands in your pockets, a smoke dangling slack   

from the slit of your pumpkin mouth,   

humped over like the eel-man or geek,   

the dummy paid to sweep out gutters,   

drown the cats. Where are you going now?   

Though someday you'll turn your gaze   

upon my shadow in this tinted glass   

I know for now you only look ahead   

at sidewalks cracked & paved with trash

but what are you slouching toward—knee-locked,   

hippity, a hitch in your zombie walk, Bighead?

Source: Poetry (February 2004).