Alternate Girl (part two)--alternate girl dreams

Alternate girl dreams
she is
flying

over
Manila. Home
to a hundred

and one dreamers
just like
her.

She glides across
the midnight
sky

hovers
above a
group of teenagers

It’s late, she
wants to
whisper

Shouldn’t
you all
be in bed?

Not
out here
on the streets

serenading
the moon
with puffs of


smoke,
fumes of
beer, relics of

the day’s conversation.
They won’t
listen.

They won’t pay
any attention.
Typical.

Alternate girl thinks.