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Papagayo
Folder:
Poems From the Road
Musical accompaniment for poem : https://soundcloud.com/beatnik-records/papagayo
Ensenada afternoon Sidewalk bench
Outside the Oxxo convienice store
A neon city of clamor
a writhing restless hustle
Voices all around me
A Degas style impressionistic reminiscent
Of acid trip teeth grinding
2 Hispanic women in an old brown Buick
Argue over who’s turn it is to buy beer.
A man with sleek pleated pants
“I’ve got girls”
“Follow me...I take you”
“Whatever you want”
“I’ve got eet”
“You wanta the cocaina?
He wouldn’t let me sketch him.
2 girls cross the street
Very young
Dressed in the scent of sin
“Hey baby”
“I’ll show you good time”
The man with the pleated pants
Scolded her in Spanish
Then coolly tips his hat to me with a half grin.
“Come on, I take you”
