Waving from Brooklyn

avocado toast.
toasted bread.
sliced avocado.
$17. 
Sigh.

breakfast used to be different.
coffee.
whiskey.
not Brooklyn. 
better.

now.
poetically.
I don't miss this or that.
or her...much.
so it goes.

standing on Nostrand Ave. 
watching couples. 
my heart is filled for a moment.
until I walk.
and look for sidewalk treasures.

I wave to the past.
from my bastion of for-now.
for good or ill. 
until something comes along.
to steal me away again.