Embedded

EMBEDDED

 

Between Haifiz and

two puddles talking

and Kerouac

Three Tangier Poems

wanting sand to hide in

trapped in poetic mis-juctice

gotham graces fleet street

fleshed sword the jackals swing

beheading the decent

who fail to duck

heads up the blade will slice

burying the head

before hiding 

the sand isn’t much of an option 

the headless heed nothing

hiding not even available for cover

the sand is there

but it is too late

difficult to hide what isn’t there 

suddenly trapped

by poetic mis-justice

not even able to hide in the sand

without a body 

embedded headless

suddenly trapped 

by poetic mis-justice

such mis-fortunate  madness

this poetic mis-justice

and not even able to

hide in the sand

A. Mendoza, 2016