DAILY COMMERCE

The white truck from Interstate Meat Co. The wind and the sun in the leaves of the maple tree. A sparrow lands beside a shimmering green garbage bag. Bicycle conference at 4294. Truck from Total Transport. The milk from the broken bottle has dried in the street. Here it comes, the truck from Allen’s. Here it comes, the truck from Iberville Lumber. Green delivery van from Abrams Kosher Meat. Sun ascending toward noon. Fast-moving blue van from Courvette Plumbing. Green van from Oriental Trading Co., this information taped to rear window. Simpsons’ van. Superior Brush Manufacturing Co. St. Hyacinth Express. Clarke Traffic Services pulls away with boasts written upon its side. Blue taxi. Peepee in our alley by baby sponsored by male parent. Fire truck returns. Mysterious grey sealed van from ARCA. Benfeito Grocery in red. From the houses on one side to the houses on the other fly the sparrows. Fast-moving saffron-coloured VW. Chambly Clothing Co., a white truck. A red dump truck, E. Mercier in small yellow letters. Leonard Auto Supply, clean and yellow. Les Huitres Océanne Enrg, with a picture of a dish of them, against the sea-blue tin. Ford Station Wagon parking. M. Aucoin, green van. S. Rioux, plumbing and heating. Two sparrows on the wire that passes through the maple tree. Sun climbing high. Here it comes again, Interstate Meat Co., western beef choice red and blue, all written in black but red. Blue extermination van. F. Crepeau Transport is done, it roars away. The wind lifts up all the leaves toward the sky, and then forgets. JAWA Motorcycles, World’s Champions, red and white. Big truck from Howicks, 7300 Hutchison, Montreal. O a heavenly Chinese girl with mother and infant passes below this balcony, black hair and I am nothing to her. Peepee child and father loitering in their own doorway. Top of pointillist poplar sighted above the roofs of west side of street, it accepts the crown from the invisible hands as sudden trumpet music from the radio calls up the martyrs, and the vague clouds kneel down. Some vans or trucks went by unnoticed. A loud Plymouth. Plombier Lecuyer. It’s noon exactly. Noises from the birds, singing, enthusiastic. Something self-satisfied about the sun. Automatic Mailing and Printing Co., white and black van. Lasalle Taxi. Regal Taxi. Hardtop Cadillac, wine-coloured. Another fire truck returns. Blue Levine Bros. Bakery. Blue Imperial. A tire screech on Rachel Street. Fuck You painted on a Mach 1 fender in drippy yellow. Let the beautiful girl in the green Renault look for me. H. Laroche, carrying furniture. On its mission, a beige unmarked van. Rainbow General Transport, huge and blue, unloading. –ntiac, letters missing on the back of a yellow one, carrying a man and a woman. Jules D’Alcantrara, fleuriste, filled with cold flowers. Deluth Meat Grocery. Nea ZoH, that is, New Life Supermarket Fatima and Vinga Food Products. Not to have those legs around me, or the flimsy tunic fall for me, or never to outwit her schemes for lives in houses such as these, and better and better. Matador Converters Co., Quilters, dark truck