Tiki-Head Gear-Shift

The sunlight
              filtering down thru a
bend in the haze
                              does a rhinestone shimmy
              out on the water that
                                                backpedals to Yokohama

the seabreeze makes a sound like an albatross
hanging from the neck of a harpsicord

              pelicans dive into the pavement
                              & come up w/beaks full of hubcaps

Nothing adds up

                              If it ever does I
                                                might get hauled away from here
              in a day-glo blue velvet Cadillac El Dorado
                                                                w/Eddie Poe behind the wheel
                              & a couple cases of opium-spiked Tecate
                                                                                  in the back seat