On Ben Gurion Blvd
(I’m watching)
3 grown men arguing
on a 4-way bench –

they yell, gesture, then
one stands up and
(before he storms off)
the whole thing tilts away

like it’s a grown up seesaw;
he pulls his weight from the fight
and it no longer stands.

I sat on that exact bench a week before
(I remembered)

when I sat down, it all tilted toward me
as if everyone else had already stormed off
and I was waiting for them to come back.