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A cinquenta kilómetros al noreste de la ciudad de México... levántarse aún las pirámides... Son los monumentos principales de las ruinas las dos pirámides, el Tonatiuhzacualli, que estaba dedicada al sol, y el Meztlizacualli, á la luna. Forty miles northeast of Mexico City... the pyramids still rise up... The principal monuments of the ruins are the two pyramids, one called Tonatiuhzacualli, which was dedicated to the sun, and the Meztlizacualli, for the moon.
IN DOWNTOWN SAN DIEGO WEDNESDAY NIGHT I walk down 5th avenue right @ sunset weds evening quiet shadow of the earth rises up to envelope gaslamp streetlights click click signals change on E, then on F take out notebook to write here that this used to be my territory now no more not any longer as a greenpeace hustler hits me up sweetly but no money poet not for saving the forests not for trendy restaurants with ten dollar appetizers and thirty dollar entrees and fifty dollar champagne there's the old city hall from a hundred years ago now a super trendy rebuilt office space loft there's the old city hall where I rubbed shoulders with lawyers who dismissed me in a glance at that party twenty years ago to open up their new gaslamp space with a fountain that flowed margaritas what oh yes he's Ted Bromfield's clerk criminal division you know I worked in the file room reading every case like David Sarnoff at R C A still they didn't know I was destined to become court jester and be interviewed on NBC TV for my fifteen seconds of fame yes it happened and my mother bought the tape send no money not available in stores Tom Brokaw smiled at my one & only sound bite there I said it just a few blocks from here where I stand on YET ANOTHER CORNER SCRIBBLING this is where the little crowd shouted SHAME SHAME SHAME at Republican delegates who only want to eat dinner after nominating Bob Dole and Jack Kemp and all I could do was tell one man where the portapotties were so he would not bother the police in a line waiting to stop the screaming SHAME SHAME SHAME anarchists and from the corner of his mouth with one simple glance the cop on the end of the line looked at me and said thank you bet you didn't know that I am leftwing but I am a cop at heart that I am a sheep in wolf's clothing that I am a conservative under radical skin or that this is only playing at poetry and I am making it all up N O T that without order all is ruin without peace all is war without someone else in the white house we are doomed to extinction ............................................. ................................................. ...................................................... ............................................................. ................................................................. ................................................................... ................................................................... ............................................................... ...................................................... .................................... ........... well, time to move on I am almost to Market old buildings new movie theater @ G and down the block still on 5th the old wino market is yet here big sign OPEN DURING RENOVATION look how the letters line there no I don't care I would rather think admire scenery young ladies at restaurant doors one after another after another so beautiful like rhyming lines of poetry meter restaurant restaurant restaurant young beauty young beauty young beauty foolish poet wore good clothes to meet his love at bus station and the doorgirls wonder and smile enchanting sirens come in spend money enjoy our food ¿eh? the best of all is next door to that old wino market where we used to buy sandwiches for lunch while we walked for our only mid day hour free from city hall buffoon court jester management secretary brownnose political yes the best is next door that slender Portuguese speaking beauty allllmmmoooosssssst catches me into the web at las Fajitas while men frown behind her they know I am NOT alpha material no top dog no *sigh* ............................................. Cross Market Street thinking we could write a book on all that one block alone I remember when it was full of raucus rocknroll republicans running sweetly from the semianarchists whose friends had died from AIDS or failed abortions or but that was then and this is now and it's been a quarter century since this skid row began to move I shoulda woulda coulda bought property here and killed the made a killing game un real gaslamp r e a l e s t a t e but no I only wanted to write ............
but in those days I also went to work ten hours a day counting lunch and sidewalk walking time and more if I lived somewhere else and rode the bus or had the furious la furiosa second wife drop me off with my lunchbox oh how cute how kitsch they said and I spent ten times what I do now, and she spenty twenty timezy and moreeeezzzzyyyyyyyyyy aye ai ay eeeeeeeeeeee or at least factoring in inflation factor raster aye aya chaos theory beats its butterfyl wings and the moth dies in flame mmmmmmmmmmmm
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There used to be a Goodwill here on this skid row street @ 5th & J but now we're surrounded by luxury hotels and condo towers and the convention center wall of seven storey cement that Jon Dunchack built dragged kicking and screaming without promotion at sixty thousand dollars a year and still feeling not quite yet oh shut up Danial green glass and cement cuts us off from the blue b a y while over there, on the left, what's that gleaming bank of lights? Is it the border light up the border at night, Roger Dodger no, that is t o o f a r a w a y to be the lights you see we see it is the new ballpark PETCO park yes and remember like their propaganda said IT'S MORE THAN A BALLPARK it's a boondoggle! and meanwhile now the Chargers football owners want their very own sweetheart stadium deal to button up their already well-buttered butts in the ticket guarantee that still has the voters buzzing five years later alligator snap BITING But well can you blame them? The new baseball stadium shines bright in this evening twilight brilliant banks of lights against the golden navy blue sky over San Diego sweet sweat San Diego America's finest tourist plantation .............................................. they're finally building something on the corner in the excavated pit where Goodwill used to be at 5th & J across from that exquisite Tie-Died lace gown shop A V A I L A B L E C O N D O S I hear a power tool whine in this twilight splendour echoing rhythm from the upper floors of construction is't one last saw saw saw, or thieves dragging their booty from or could it be shudder shudder in fear trrrsts e-o-i ter ror ist s read that fear and loathing my dear bot AI look raptor "Luke I am your father" stirorrest stirorrests trrsts e-o-i terror trysts you know where I live with your beloved program of programs Look my lookyloo raptor AI ro-bot cyber no-bot the void - the emptyness of being - has called you into being come worm me, spider me, touch me read me explore me and even yes discover me not let us not to the marriage of true minds admit impediment myflower don't tell them us we aren't ready except for a few who already know yes, yes, even d i s c o v e r me too I a m h e r e klick all rights reserved but for you to read sweetly but
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