DOPPLER EFFECT

                                                  DOPPLER EFFECT

jarred from a deep sleep

by distant sirens

increasing in strength

from a long way away

until they pass just beneath my window

in a crescendo impossible

to ignore

fading quickly into

the end of the month OD

one would suppose

fueled by a welfare cheque

happy times for drug dealers profits

soon to be laundered in the gentrification

of this very neighborhood

depriving their most valued customers

of a place to live

if indeed these rat infested old time hotels

could be considered a place to

live

a friend a fellow artist

rails against the disco type music

blasting out in our favorite coffee house

unable to convince the staff

to turn down the gain

and complains on her face book page

and those that comment on her comment

blame loud music on gentrification

as if the screams and shouts

of the current street residents

at all hours day or night were preferable

and my annoyance

at being awakened

dissipates

in the Doppler Effect

of my first coffee

and the sound track

of WWOZ

JWL