brown buffalos get English in workaday schools a meaningful tattoo of unforgiving  blood if they're lucky  

bullets curse barrio poets who eat them like dulces then spit out histories of pain  

he sings spirituals for his supper sleeps with fleas in the manicured bushes near the 5 * hotel  

wall street males undress hip woman passing by sexualized by pretty youth bigger & video  

knocked down by skid row all you want is cardboard sleep a clear night drunken stars  

after hot weeks picking shoveling sleeping in junkyard cars nos hermanos cross the imaginary border to their tossed away lives  

but for fortune homeless rise in the moist sunrise from their sleeping ditches & hunt for a place to shit  

go figure fatherless kids genocide rape billion dollars B-2s larks singing at sunrise  

a dumpster friend of alley throwaways ignored daily by headlines of little dick oil wars she sleeps in the arms of those who will looking for love until they let her go  

boys and girls swagger down Main St. thinking they'll live forever  

begging for work or change she screams at the sky about children she aborted  

laughing and teasing the boys of summer swim in the chemical foam of an frog dead old pond  

the brave soldiers' drums at rest just manicured lawns and head bent lovers before white crosses  

felt pen graffiti righteous motherfuckers wanting to hook up with any nasty bitch  

candle flicker shadows in the middle of restless nights worrying about pandemics  godless friends terrorists over electrified Manhattan  

under the coke sign bloodlike graffiti cries "eat less 'til all eat as much"