Sinfonietta Z on Bedford Street

Regina B is sitting on her balcony

Smoking a joint

She is writing a short story

About the life and death

Of her albino brother

She has called the story

Sinfonietta Z on Bedford Street

 

Willoughby

Willoughby used to keep a pigeon loft

On the roof of his apartment

In Gates Avenue Bedford Stuyvesant

The loft previously belonged to his father

Who ran a liquor store a few blocks away

Willoughby’s earliest memories were of the pigeons

Returning to the loft after a race

When his father died he vowed to keep the tradition alive

But soon a disease decimated the loft

And Willoughby released the surviving pigeons

As he had lost interest in them