Chow Time with the Invisible Man

Midnite Snack.
He picks up chicken bones and drowns them
in a can of water stolen from a busted main.
The fates favor him: the wood catches fire
and boils his midnite soup. The bones he can pick later,
after slurping the thin broth through broken teeth. The
way he sucks the grease from his fingernails you'd think
he'd suck the world out of them too. No one would mind,
no one sees.

A couple passes by, arguing about the movie they just kissed through:
was bad, was good, was bad, was good
a dog shuffles along, sniffing food
Someone throws a slipper on cats in heat and a Clerk
yells at her taxi driver for a speed-crazy meter.

He curls against the cold, waiting for the fire and the soup
to wear off Woops:
a drunk barely misses stepping on his head.