Honest to God I have found tranquility.
My legs were shaking like I'd just had sex
And I found
Five hundred miles
Of pointed graffiti
And art and crying masses meet Miami's dusty corridors
At five a.m.
I felt the pain of creative burden aching in
my backbones
and hipbones
and breasts
And demanded the leniance of turnstiles
And old latino men,
"Que linda, que linda, yo te quiero."

It is much too early and,
(unlike you, vato),
I haven't got sugar cane memories of Havana
Or little Havana
Or anywhere else.
"Guero, Gringa,
Yo te amo."

I gave birth to my own solipsistic universe,
And nature is an exacting book-keeper.

Mondays
Modern day
Second-class Carriage
And nobody meets anyone's eyes without
...
Awkward
(is he still staring at me?)
The woman with the lazy eye
Is nothing but Brickell Station
Right now.

Mondays at Government Center, how do you do?