Cavil/ Captious

To criticize sarcastically without good reason (v.)/(adj.)

VI.
And I forget to mention
that I've been drinking
and that I'm riding my bike
drunk
and watching the scene
and taking it in
to come home and write about it--

and the light turns green
and I start to pedal uphill towards my house
and I swerve out of the way as a cab passes
and I hear old men laughing at me
and there's a fat pair of shoulders
in the back of the cab that passes me
with a blazered arm around them
and they seem warm
and it is dark
and we all go uphill together
toward our houses.