Lunch time (from The City) with video

The patrolmen in Passaic

Stroll Main Street waving batons

At the police chief’s daughter

Who sells tickets

At the city’s only porno theater,

Cops who stop for lunch

And desert at the go go clubs

While geese patrol
the glisten park brook

Where the children play

And drug dealers clutter

Dark pools of shadow

To trade war stories

While selling smack

And cocaine

As the mayor

A few blocks away
cuts a ribbon on the new
sex toy shop

Located a block

From an elementary school

And all this before
the night life starts,

This is the day crew

Of beer guzzling

Coke snorting

Work men from Clifton

Who have to go home

At five to explain

Where their pay checks went

And why they got lipstick

On their collars.