I've been here for three years. Is that gonna change this week ?

a parks officer, unarmed? after interrogating me as to whether I

have a permit for this?

a permit? this is art

this is art?

...yes

what kind of art

I'm painting with sunlight.

not gon lie that's really cool

so they say

before its partner tried to be like

You say you've been here for three years

Five days a week

Five days a week and how have I never seen you here before

I've watched that one stalking wordless past me and my work with its handcuffs bouncing to go and harass the mango vendors every week since their assignment started six? nine months ago

ask anyone inside there they will tell you

and I pointed up at that

it got uncomfortable and disappeared into its telephone as if the blue lives matter strap around its badge was actively disallowing its black skin from acknowledging what I'd asked

it only took six days, eighteen hours, and fifty-two minutes from the close of polls in the referendum regarding Proposal Two for little green men to knock on the door of my timeshare in sebastopol

email if you want to sponsor passage to a venue from which I may continue to broadcast these series unaccosted by local combatants, or throw dollars at my deadname to fund film and parts to keep the little 82-year old monster purring like it's 1949