1)
Arts and crafts – your name in wood,
Handmade bird houses and bowls to sit on a shelf
Tee-shirts – tie dyed, cute sayings, political epithets,
Painted flags, cows and chickens with claws, birds on the beach
Handmade pens and jewelry maybe imported from third world sweatshops
2)
Food booths and trucks – artisan roasted coffee
If there’s not a long line, you wonder why
Asian, Hispanic, African or AfriKan, southern cuisine,
Pick your poison – purchase Kaopectate on the way home
3)
Produce – fresh, home grown or fresh off the dock
Berries out of season must come in on a plane
Honey – flavored, diluted, repackaged in fancy bottles – smear
On fresh baked bread from the booth next door
Who cares, if you can brag you bought it at an outdoor street market
4)
Young and old – dressed to hide, to impress, be seen,
Send a message or maybe to kill
Androgyny in a bikini and high heels carries an umbrella
To keep out of the sun, wear your sunglasses to ogle and stare
Ask yourself when and why did the hula hoop crowd go out of style?
5)
Buskers – good, not so good and downright bad
Originals and covers, one step from karaoke,
Disney, Opryland, Austin City Limits or America’s Got Talent
Someone should tell them speaker size does not increase tips
6)
In a city owned flower bed where urban dog owners let
Their babies sniff and pee, a street preacher stands
Ankle deep in naturally fertilized greenery throwing pearls before the swine,
Condemns passersby to hell and damnation, promises
His brand of holy will somehow save them from alcohol, porn and drugs
He never discriminates who puts money in his offering jar
6)
Buy a $9 bag of boiled peanuts to take home to your partner
Because that what loving partners do
7-3-22
My husband's poetry 
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