the woman at the front
of the bus
is talking on her phone
no, she is shouting to someone
on the other end
he’s no good
he’s a bastard
that fucking pussy bitch
it’s another faceless love gone wrong
before she got on the bus
there was a fat man
with a moustache like hitler’s
sitting in her seat
at every stop he whistled a few bars
of a song i didn’t recognize
i thought that he was a pain in the ass
until her
. . . i need to recognize the good luck
when i have it
John Grochalski's writing has appeared in Rusty Truck, The Lilliput Review, The Blue Collar Review, Modern Drunkard Magazine, The American Dissident, Underground Voices, Zygote In My Coffee, and The Smoking Poet, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Fictionville, Bartleby Snopes, Retort, The Battered Suitcase, The Big Stupid Review, Pequin, The Legendary, and The Moose & Pussy. His book of poems, The Noose Doesn’t Get Any Looser After You Punch Out is out via Six Gallery Press.