Tijuana Book of the Dead by Luis Alberto Urrea

Author:Luis Alberto Urrea
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, pdf
Publisher: Soft Skull Press

you have to remind the body it exists

outside of moist night clenches and carnitas

in green salsa. it’s not all bad dreams,

lust and crouching near-sighted as a mole

over clacking plastic keys.

I blasted past

old men with walkers

those bastards

until my crunchy ankle

frictioned up a fire in the kindling of my leg

and dropped me trailing smoke

to a waterside rock in pissyellow sand—

landed, feet in seaweed,

and the smug old bastards

lapped me and hove away.

cool air felt wonderful:

a train rolling out of San Diego, going where

I always wanted to be—somewhere else—

sounded its long cry and faded north.

I walked to the water, soaked my feet.

OK,

not bad

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