Cachinnate

to laugh (v.)

V.
People travel in groups around them
the crying girl and her man
some in cars going slowly
some in groups of two or five or six
and on the curbs
under awnings of bars
old homeless men sit where they've been sitting
since the time when the sun was out
and the night before that, etc,
and they cackle holding paper bags
filled with bottles
filled with the bane of everyone's breath here--

they laugh especially hard
when the girl enters the cab
with the man with the smile
because the old homeless men know them
and everyone else that travels around them
because the old homeless men know
that all these people think
they're going somewhere.