French, Italian,
Arabic, Chinese
I can’t understand a word
in this melting pot of faces
People shoving like Manhattan
at rush hour
buying it all to stretch
the American dollar
but... they’ve abandoned the
homeless
who sleep on business doorsteps
We are like voyeurs
taken by the swirl of skin color
shapes of eyes, noses, lips
chubby children with high cheek
bones
white teeth smiles and silken black
hair
run over our feet on their quest
for swings and slides
Wide assed women walk by
dreaming prophetic dreams
of brown eyed off-spring
swinging hips with a Marley beat
and the beautiful lady under the
arches
says “We are all one People”
in a heavy Jamaican accent
Congested trails marked for safety
ignored by free wheeling dogs
on the run by the beach
crash into cyclists
sending them tumbling
like Japanese acrobats
Oblivious to the scene
Canada geese
honk out their national anthem
escaping south to Florida
like the natives in Mercedes
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