ABRUPTO

09:42 (JPP)

EARLY MORNING BLOGS

978 - California Plush

The only thing I miss about Los Angeles
is the Hollywood Freeway at midnight, windows down and
radio blaring
bearing right into the center of the city, the Capitol Tower
on the right, and beyond it, Hollywood Boulevard
blazing

-pimps, surplus stores, footprints of the stars

-descending through the city
fast as the law would allow

through the lights, then rising to the stack
out of the city
to the stack where lanes are stacked six deep

and you on top; the air
now clean, for a moment weightless

without memories, or
need for a past.

(Frank Bidart)

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Bom dia!