December First Mexico City 2023

 
…in the night sirens blare bouncing off
graffiti designed expressions of communist trusts
…in shelters Trotsky tip toed in his wool socks to distract assassins
But the axe is a brutal weapon to catapult a skull into eternity
…while dogs in two defecate on cracked CDMX…sidewalks…little Julietta
…tattooed starlet entices us from across the street, but we are saints sending regretful prayers
…to protect the children in the sinking city.  The air is thin, but they rise from the earthquakes
…with fists and work to sweating exhaustion till the music begins and the mexcal settles the starved
…stomach and a smirk creeps from a wrinkled mouth, alas an escape is stepped into…created from
…the madness in a scarred Mexico City room