It has been a trippy day, in a trippy time zone, in a trippy city. South Beach, the bitch, the itch
that needs a scratch, the city with a rash, ashen, fallen, zoned out, shouting.
Lot of loss, cost high, stolen items, ad infinitim
It is just rude, intrusive and using
City for your bruising
Introduction to the wierd
You are steered wrong’
On a regular basis
Is there redemption
In this hell here?
Well, here it is.
It is a city of many sentences.
Without a rhyme or reason
It is treason of sorts’
To have so many cultures
And so many vultures
Living, alive,
breathing,
Seething
It has been a heavy month
In an oppressive week
Hurricane season
swimming home almost
The host of heat,
the damp city that doesn’t greet
but hollers
WE ARE HERE
GET IT, GOT IT
Good
You are in the hood
of broken dreams
And nothing seems
as it should
in the local
neighborhood
Good I am still alive,
breathing,
seething with song
In spite of what has gone wrong
Getting along anyway
With a little help from my friends
In the end,
We all win
From knowing how to thin
an unpinnable direction down
I clown,
and laugh, and screetch
Cheech and Chang, still funny
day still sunny
Muggy, damp, I cramp
and umcramp my legs
my lungs
my feet
Trying to beat the pavement
from crowding in on me
Retreat to silence
and white walls
and laundry
and food
and a smoky haze
Days, months, hours
climbing,
crawling
I stand,
as a gypsy
and twirl my colors around
I stand resillient
resplendent
Happy, Proud
ALoud, I sing


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South Beach,
the bitch, the itch
that needs a scratch,
the city with a rash,
ashen, fallen,
zoned out, shouting.
Lot of loss, cost high,
stolen items, ad infinitim"
This reminds me a little of Ginsberg. Excellent!