take a number

there are good priests
and bad.
bad lawyers, and not
so bad.
drunk poets,
movie stars who eat only
celery and carrots.
narcissistic sailors
and
angst ridden
cowboys.
depressed bakers, unhugged
as a child.
the traffic cop
who's afraid of the dark.
the senator
who
thinks he's king.
the street walker
who's a queen.
there's napoleon
on the street corner.
jesus outside
the grocery store playing
a harmonica.
the weary, the happy.
the rich, the poor,
the love sick.
those on the bridge
about to dive.
it's a mixed up world,
with a long line
forming
outside of Sigmund
Freud's door.