in the morning with the last
cool breath of the sea
		still pendant
in the breaking 	low 
		coastal		clouds

aerial  waves  	from  the
sea			puffed
			against

continent       mountain  shore

one can ,  I can ,
almost imagine how this land
felt at first to the newcomers

all promise and fertility

		and then
		the slow
real-ization
under the burning summer sun

	of	how	terribly

		d r y

it

		really

is

		.  w a s  .


                                     [eight-syllable lines on this earth]

( saw 	it's good for cattle ranching
	not so much for agriculture


		UN-less

w a t e r  )






TODAY, Of Course, is another
millennium.  We worship this
mild, dry weather;  and send
everyone to the beach

for holiday trash

while, meanwhile ever and again
you water down the sidewalks
and driveways with

precious liquid

stolen  from  the  great  river
who used to run beyond the Yuman beings
and Colorado

		unto the other


sea .


			[ a gulf has opened, there       here  ]


	en lugar de  " l a c u n a "

			sí .




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there was gum on my seat
last night in the movies
so I stood in back
for the bulk of
the show               it  was  okay

the movie that is but I
ain't gonna recommend it
nor even say its 
name until

the studio answers
my email

              [standing wasn't okay it sucked
                 and when I complained afterwards
                 they  (he - the young man movieplex employee)
                 only said how good of me to tell them ("us" - he said us)
                 so that "we" can clean the seat for others next show

but I had to stand, I repeated,

but the boy (I am too soon old, yes)
made no offer of free tickets on
"their" behalf in response to my complaint
repeated               from the bottom of my heart
we apologize for any inconvenience

and I was NOT
about to demand a free ticket, no,
                       I wanted them (him)
to offer it 

I only gave them (him, the bearded child
employee at the snack bar who rushed
over to customer services when I waited there

perhaps he did not understand

the opportunity of answering and offering)

HE = THEY                  I = WE

                                    you see  (sea) ]


                                              the affect, the literary conceit
                                              t h e      p r e s u m p t i o n
                                              of personal voice: 1st, 2nd, 3rd
                                              subject, object
                                              all determine          message

         v  o  i  c  e          you   r e a d      h  e  r  e



           .  eh  .



just as I am giving all those
studios the opportunity to embrace
a free advertising WORD OF MOUTH here


word   of    k e y b o a r d ,   actually

BUT  they  (you?)  must  first  
answer and say yes you gringo me
may use any publicity photos, videos
sound clips or other materials "we" release
for  r e v i e w i n g     p  u  r  p  o  s  e  s  .   .     .       .           .

and I, we, shall review as we see fit
and be glad to link back to your sites, dear Hollywood loves
let's do lunch you look fabulous but oh my doesn't whatsisfuck sssSTINK yeszzz


                           but
                                    only
                                                 then tell you
what we

(and I DON'T go to the movies alone, btw
                      and many people discuss the latest films
                                              and the classic films and that, too,
                      is     r e v i e w    c r i t i q u e
                                              word of mouth

                      and this "we" is no
                                             c o n c e i t     )




          SAW                                      SEE

          WAS                                       IS




sí
                                (   p a l i n d r o m e  -
                                                            istically
                                                    speaking
                                                              )




                    [   W R I T I N G    ]



                                                    )

Extra extra read all about it Martians outside of Los Angeleeese, and the great and marvelous OTAY glorietta to be destroyed in the name of p r o g r e s s, further progress in pavimentation government says yes no no me haces caso no

There used to be a beautiful park here, Olimpia told us on the same night over a week ago when we gave her a ride home and learned she has given up her bureaucratic literary job with the federal cultural center CECUT. Ministers come and go but permanent secretaries are forever. My father used to bring us here, she said, we would park and spend the whole day playing and eating our picknick lunch. Almost no one lived around here in Otay, then, they only had the first roads in, and this was a huge park surrounded by wide open, undeveloped land on the far side of the moon from downtown, nothing except for the park and the first boulevard leading back west toward the University, yes, that was here, and nothing else, nothing at all. There were swings and slides and picknick tables and trees, lots of trees, and yes, gringo, (she did not say that word she is much too polite) even back then the water was better out here on the mesa de Otay....

But I did not make it up most of it at least and the great glorietta of trees and boulevards is now entering its final death throes. A vast street has been carved right through the heart of the dead park obliterating those hemicircular gazebo shade monsters, and cement bridge pillars are rising up where another road will cross over... more paving, more bridges, more progress *sigh* it is a killer intersection, five or six roads coming together in this new zone of Tijuana far beyond the old, and

THERE. That is what it still looked like in an aerial photo from Terra Server on 22 May 2002.