Amoricana

Combination of churches and chickens
Hammocks and swings hanging while
Empty tracks glimmer in blinding heat
Folks sitting around on porches
Watching it all go on by

Take 2
Mexican faces, Indian places
The Kings Highway carving through
Desert days and ocean haze
Eucalyptus and fennel smells

Commerce in the scent of human sweat
Billboards and gas stations blow by
Garbage tossed aimlessly by the roadside
Breaks the monotony of parched greenery and
American vistas allowed the legacy of Spanish names
 
 

Something I came up with
while travelling the endless
highways and byways of California.
October 1997

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