Stuart, 23, appears briefly at the Safeway across from Lithia Park

Stuart, 23, appears briefly

at the Safeway across from Lithia Park

hollering schizophrenic

hurts observers with his filth

he has emerged from culvert chimeras

onto the sunny supermarket parking lot

gulls engulf him

with cavilry and laughter

they scoot around his broken boots

poop in brotherly tribute, his pied troupe

his parents are driving to Bend

to get the year’s last skiing

they smile bravely over Cabernet

and a smoking hunk of charred heart

restored to his storm drain, rain

shouts down the voices a while