Thursday, August 9, 2018

ALL OF THE GOOD RESTING PLACES HAVE BEEN TAKEN...

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I wait...
until the crowds have thinned
Until the cars are gone
And the streets...
Empty

The curbs,
cluttered with trash

The stores,
Emptying

As last-minute shoppers
Make their last dash

Then, the last
Straggling owners
Shutter their store doors,
And echoes of clanging iron -
Steel locks against the burglar bars-

Fade and die slowly...
Away

I look
For some dry place,
Some nondescript
Abode
Just far enough away

That I won't catch the gaze
Of Johnny Ley

And close enough to light
Not to entice
The predators that prowl
In the darkest nooks of night

The best benches in the park
Are gone

As are bus terminal benches
And booths of public phones

I've slept on concrete benches
Of soft cement
Steel bench arm rest pillows 
That seem to bend

We'll have to wander through the streets
And duck in doorways
When scanning spotlights say
Hay viene Johnny Ley

Where, oh where, to go?

The last recourse, I will not go
There it is always silent
Quiet,
No noise

A soft, eternal snore
That gently stirs the ground
And shakes, and wakes you
To look around

And see no one

No, the city cemetery is out
I'd rather walk
All night
Tired, exhausted, beat
Than hear their silent screams
Theirs, the ones that always sleep

All the good resting places
Have been taken
Except for that
And sometimes, I must confess,

Weariness tugs me there
To come and stay
And pull me down 
Under the grass

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

But Rose Cowen has taken illegal money and spent it on duck ponds and bike trails, why not steal from the stolen money for the homeless.

Anonymous said...

What is this, words from a sentimental Mexican? Not selling, Montoya. Mexico, come get your people!

Anonymous said...

Rose Cowen needs shelters built every 500 yards on the bike and bike trails, and is using stolen money to do it. What about the bus shelters



?

Anonymous said...

Get an umbrella.

Anonymous said...

Look like my EX.

Anonymous said...

No get the cop's to move them as it doesn't look good for the new Pizza shop. Don't forget that the homeless are taking the birds sleeping space, not a good image for the honest corrupt scandal free Brownsville. Corruption was never this bad, even the Texas Rangers are no match for Rene Oliveria, here is a person who openly flaunts the law, drinking and driving and using drugs while attending court illegally. No you can't say that Brownsville has gone to the the dogs, as they just kill the dogs.







Anonymous said...

WOW it is my EX...i think

rita