Pike Place Creamery

Rummage Hall, Pike Place Market

Rummaging for Self Worth

Maggie, wearing baggy dollar bin sweatpants, stringy blond pony tail and sticky palms Her junkie boyfriend swaying in the wind like a used car dealership windsock man,

Stops at  bank of newspaper stands and thinks

Maybe this is where I left it

Buried in the nickel want ads and escort service flyers

Her ragged hands, a finger wrapped in a cigar ring (a sign of Junkie’s affection),

Search through stacks of papers and words for that moment when she went from

Waitress to Junkie’s girlfriend, street rat

She meticulously collects each free weekly in her shaking arms

So she can peruse them later,

When alone,

She can get down to the business of finding what she lost

Moon and Calacas