Steve Mielczarek

I’m from the “French Quarter.”
Ten minutes walk, to the north, the Jewish ghetto.
Nazis stole our food.
If you had, say, five cows, Nazis took four.
Tangiers, Brother Justin,
Baloney Girl, we ate pigeons and rabbits.
Pigeon soup was good.
Fat Belgian pigeons; big, fat, pigeons, big and fat like chickens.
That’s what we ate.

"Gold's nice."
But.
"I ain't
no punk."