The Crown of Brooklyn

thick in Bed Stuy 
and sick of summer,
I sweat my way
to a meeting of artists,
one of whom
I want to bang. 

do people still say bang anymore?
oh well, I don't know. 
I get to the location and no one is there.
Turns out, I had the day wrong;
the meeting is next Thursday.

So I head back 
to my temporary home,
with Franco and other losers
who lie about their station in life. 
I drink coffee and eat popcorn.
I sit on a chair
and paint the stairs
with blood from knuckles.

this is a good day, I think. 
nothing happened
and nothing is better than a canceled
or forgotten, flubbed meeting,
and so I write poetry about normal days
where nothing happens.