Uber Drivers / 1
Breena Clarke suggested (!!!) I write a series of Uber Driver poems. In New Mexico, we take Ubers. Drivers are a way of understanding something of a city and who lives there. All our drivers are in Albuquerque. And by the way, these are Mostly True. (VENIEROS 342 East 11th Street New York City)
Mourad
Handsome Mourad handsome not strong enough very is a diminishing word from Casablanca arrived three days ago drove in his car from New York to live in Albuquerque near his 12 year old son Elias ex wife (Jewish) she got a tenured theater job. They're all there now. For twenty years Mourad lived in Stuyvesant town worked as manager for Venieros. An old Italian bakery in the East Village. I've been there a thousand times. Probably saw Mourad. At Venieros Mourad met various girlfriends, and then, his ex-wife. She was a waitress while she went to NYU. Her family, unhappy, said Mourad was not a doctor. Not even a lawyer, they said. Their divorce was for a longer ride. We have his number now.