Pocket Confessional

All shot to hell as is the custom here
              Shanty Cruz under leaky blue
                              I meant to say “leafy”
                                                blue sky but either way…
an Apache dance in a culvert pipe
              (scene from a movie I dreamed)
Hong Kong cinema
transmitted by ship-to-shore hieroglyphic radio
              which comes across as
                              a full-rail cutback in a puddle of blue blood

The Coastside Blossom Brigade
out in full force
              as are the junkies & meth divers
so that I bend the iron rods of vision
                              in order to get a better shot but
                                                the mariachis always reel me back
                              like a plastic guitar in the window of
                                                                the 5 Dollar Store on a Sunday
                                                afternoon (which as I understand it
                              means something entirely different in
                              Paraguay