Listen, when we were younger
we drove to the legislative buildings
in my famous grey Chevette and smoked
oil from bottle caps and bought
licks from street kids
And then we stared at the floodlights
until our retinas burned and the city
turned purple. We called it ‘purple city’ –
it was the only thing to do in Winnipeg
Do you remember this?
I think we were trying to
upgrade the city or go blind