Time Zone

Time Zone

hip hopping
hop scotching
rumbling around
time zones

past the boulevards of naked ladies
into the soda shops
and ma an pa stores
with sweet and biting nikl nips

riding bicycles at two hundred miles a memory
parking on the gravel road
drinking in
the full moon milk
a catch in the throat
at alabaster breasts exposed
beauty beyond the ancients.

Childlike, walking on three legs
riddling the home with questions
about vegetables
toothless
bubble gum
sticking to hair
absorbed in crawling and drooling
adding dimensionality
to frustration
and absorbing rays
through windexed windows
reading books from indexed libraries
a rat-a-tat, Kurt;
I am no willing Pilgrim.

Trendy stuff
blue and white plastic dishes
unisex pink and green polo shirts
where is black beauty
and Hi-yo Silver
and when will they ever mate
so we all can bleed together
into a universal healing pool?

Jasmine plays in the shade
and the grown children watch him
while childish adults
gut the structure for the profit
that is out of predictions
about the climate.