26 noviembre 2003
Tijuana, Baja California
return day-before to Tijuana from long weekend housesitting
take a yellow taxi home
from the guys I've known at Plaza Viva sitio
we talk about the competition "taxi libre"
yes Chuy says they are competing with us
we do not talk about the demonstration
last week shut down the gate
or at least slowed it considerable
I say normally I don't take taxi but today
I pay more to you guys on Plaza Viva Tijuana street
because I know you eh?
we were speaking in Spanish
it is good to be other home
I am not going back to San Diego tomorrow
and next year I hope to be far away
I will spend only one first Thanksgiving in my adopted home
after four, no, five years living here
Mike and I are gonna get together for roast chicken maybe
and Ramón says he's gonna roast
and Carlos across the park, too
but me and my twin, no turkey, only chicken.
Next year I hope to be far away depending on results from an application in to
but for now I know I will come back afterwards
I know we will come back.
email from Tere Friday three days ago before then
says she is coming back soon
and asked were we going to live together
que vamos estar juntitos, ¿verdad?
mmm yes darling it was a beautiful letter
in spite of restlessness over her family
and worries about how she's gonna leave
a gorgeous Thanksgiving harvest graphic
I die to copy it and show it to you
yes, she is. we are. the gringo tlacuilo and his 14 Potosi little together
juntitos juntitototesisimos
hyperforeignization gringo tsk tsk tsk
she will take the front room (kitchen) I the back (bedroom) and share bothe withe eache othere untile we do finde ye bigger place yeah
and then, to find out today when I return yesterday that
Mrs. Serrano, bueno, Señora Serrano, entonces
is moving out.
Her son bought her a house in Mexico____...
City. So there will be a v a c a n c y here....
in front of the park I swear that of
all this text only the last three strophes
are fiction. estrofa = stanza
F O U R 4
all else is true and it looks like
the old gringo's geting a room mate
sometime in winter or spring
is t i m e
I l i k e h e r
next dairy.................moo caowlendar
copyright 2003 danielcharlesthomas.............email tijuanagringo@yahoo.com
return day-before to Tijuana from long weekend housesitting take a yellow taxi home from the guys I've known at Plaza Viva sitio we talk about the competition "taxi libre" yes Chuy says they are competing with us we do not talk about the demonstration last week shut down the gate or at least slowed it considerable I say normally I don't take taxi but today I pay more to you guys on Plaza Viva Tijuana street because I know you eh? we were speaking in Spanish it is good to be other home I am not going back to San Diego tomorrow and next year I hope to be far away I will spend only one first Thanksgiving in my adopted home after four, no, five years living here Mike and I are gonna get together for roast chicken maybe and Ramón says he's gonna roast and Carlos across the park, too but me and my twin, no turkey, only chicken. Next year I hope to be far away depending on results from an application in to but for now I know I will come back afterwards I know we will come back.