SoMa Literary Review - April in Dolores

April in Dolores

By Kazue Watanabe

April in Dolores

Lazy sunday

getting up late,

after staying up all night,

with drunken dwarves and sunken eyes,

spending the whole day doing nothing but

surfing on the web

April in Dolores

crowded Tartine

standing in line reading Guardian

bumping into people who don't say sorry

staring at a rude waitress who don't sing merry

the day will be over soon but who cares

April in Dolores

crowded mission

walking by bums who can't afford breakfast buns,

neither at Tartine nor at Safeway

yuppies whine, bums align

singing happy birthday to you

Kazue Watanabe is originally from Japan and has lived in the SF Bay area since 1998. She is a software engineer and spends her spare time in writing poems and screenwriting for a film she has been working on since last year.