Overhead

I.

The gentle eye of a genteel businessman
Absorbs + computes what is before Him
This, our balding, aging, greying protagonist.
A bubbly bimbo with bugbites for breasts
Lounges flirtatiously at the arm of Carl Batterby in row B
With He, lonely, in row C.
Carl, drunk after only one inning, sprays mists
Of a dirty concoction: saliva, alcohol, frankfurter
Onto the slender visage of Katerina, the whore,
While mucking up a joke that she wouldn't quite
grasp even if the portly lawyer were sober.
In seat 13, a little bit farther over
A child of four
s'appelle Guillaume, pushes further
Sa mère et son père to PLEASE JUST FOR THIS ONE NIGHT
Lemme get popcorn AND peanuts.
He smirks. A call to vendor Dan
A toss of a bag! a bit too far! a slip-up grim!
And a light *crunch* as it comes to rest.
Doomed legumes mingle with cigarette butts
On the cement Earth.