BUS STOP BENCHES...

They have many stories
of life’s ups and downs:
these bedrooms of the world;
holding cold secrets 
frozen in time
with eluded hopes.

Here have sat and slept
kings and queens
of unknown fame---
whose thrones
are mere uric moments
to passer bys---
oblivious to these
evaporated kingdoms 
dotting the mid-corners
of socially moat-like avenues 
whose castles boast pinnacles
proudly advertising:

“You Could Be Here”