Saturday Night City / by Devin Williams

Saturday evening cat

slouches down the burning concrete

in the park where the horns blare

and beat.

The dancers crawl and grind on the street

careening necks like cobras in Arizona scorch.

My Monday song, Saturday evening

you snowy drip.

My Monday song, Saturday night

you strangled city wave.

And the dopers and drunks and yuppies and artists

In a vat of neon green

like some boiling antidote disguised as the Poison.

You crowd left fucking in the open taxi-tire-screeching

night.

Mixing bowl, Saturday night

hearing jazz drag the symbols.

Clubs skitter ant bodies to the bars and whiskey sours

churn

the spirit. Alive and burning

Saturday night.

Never end, never end, never end.

Evening cat night black crawls the counter wet soaked in

martinis. The tender strokes while she serves the button-

down plaid and pencil skirt blonde.

Jitter tap

the

cra ack ack ing

wooden floor

Beaming sure

Doing whatever you want.

And tender flirts a tip and blonde pouts and kicks and

grips

the plaid sleeve and pulls away into the steaming night.