Leon Freilich, Verse Responder: Bark Slope

BARK SLOPE

Parking meters across New York
will have their heads hacked off
and be turned into bike racks.
–news item

Around the city parking meters
Are being converted to racks
For the use of savvy cycle riders
Who’ll soon be making tracks.

Too late, however, for Park Slope,
Where locals discovered niches
For their everpresent dogs
And already claim them for leashes.