Rainbows

Someone had spilled

a rainbow of jujubes

on the dun sidewalk

of this rainbow town.

The South-of-Market

rats and pigeons

had yet to scarf

them up. If they will.

Maybe they don't care

for gummy candy.

I don't like the green ones.

Do rats have color vision?

Google says

they are dichromats,

the colors of their world

are dull and faint.

So no rainbows

in rat world,

no azure skies

or rosy dawns,

they rely on

perpetually twitching

noses and the cloak

of night. So perhaps

it's not any distaste

for gummy candies,

they just wait for

the quiet after last call

and the people who share

the downtown sidewalks

have crawled inside

their tents.