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A Shooting Between 4th and 5th

from Letters From The Lookout by Katcheen Tongues

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A Shooting Between 4th and 5th

Young wannabes
flipping a trashed sofa
back over
for a photo-backdrop
pose outside my apartment,
hoping to add the sleaze
they so desperately, selfishly,
need for their
sound-snap-twinder
profile-picsta-story.

The model displays himself
atop the back supporter
as if he’s at home
with the homeless,
who most likely
waddled away with
the orange couch cushions
a night or so ago.

The photographer,
with her phone,
crouches down in the gutter
copying moves she’s seen
in viral videos
or cheap montages
in Hollywood movies.
Her fingers aggressively tap
the camera screen,
shooting pics as fast as
trigger fingers drop shells,
as if fearful
a parking-starved commuter
will take her out,
knees first,
and park his gas-guzzling
shit-box on top of her
just so he can scurry
back up on home
and scratch that beer- itch
that’s gnawed at
the back of his aching
nine-to-five neck
since nine o’ five A.M.
that very morning.

When the duo used
up the whole scene,
copying every display
from various rap record covers,
they slink away together,
shoulder to shoulder
to check their score
and leave behind
the tattered old sofa
like a cheap
over the hill hooker
in her dingy hotel room.

As my attention
begins to wander
from my window
I imagine the sight
of its original owner
clambering out their
apartment to the
orphaned hunk of furniture,
calling out to
the photogenic degenerates
claiming ownership
and some form
of compensation.

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from Letters From The Lookout, released October 14, 2022

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Katcheen Tongues Los Angeles, California

Katcheen Tongues is a Philly/L.A. based art collective focused on fusing music and observational rhythmic poetry, wading in the waters of avant-folk and lofi psychedelia.

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