Everyone in Vienna is so quiet

it's like the entire city is a library

on the tram

no one speaks to each other

every one cool calm and collected

moving through in their own private pierced 

world, with a Freitag bag on their shoulder,

and a beer or a cigarette on their lips,

these beautiful people stand by the side of the Donau

and they are not ashamed of their nudity

(why would they be? they are beautiful.)