another market, 2012

passed along and passed on fire

crusty lamp-lit mango man

with wild-eyed freak show stare

saw you looking over habaneros

tortillas

pork chins

and jicama

miles and miles and wacked-out stolen miles

stolen from a place you only felt -

now dream of losing feeling

and the empty, stinging hole

cut right square through your life

cut right square through your lives

and your habaneros, tortillas

and greasy death-fornicated pork chins

and jicama

rue the night, rue the day, rue the miles

the miles you put behind you. rue the life

you cut straight through with that stinging hole.

rue the night, rue the day, rue the miles

passed along and passed on fire

guerrero

michoacan

jalisco

durango

chihuahua

stinking steel to a steel bed;

cold like cold never stung

in an empty stinging hole

and guerrero nights and guerrero days

fell away into that empty stinging hole

at the end of that stinking steel

where you passed along and passed on fire

and now you look at me, mango man

over habaneros and tortillas

pork chins

and jicama