traitors

i just watched 
a movie

about a punk rock

girl in tangier

who must drive

a car carrying drugs

from a small village

in the green

magrheb hills

back down

to tangier

cuz her band

“traitors”

has to buy

studio time

even music time

is money

sometimes

and opium

is a flight

from time

and the car

she drives

moves across

landscapes

that really

encompass centuries

of distance

from fast tangier

to the tall

swaying plant

lands of the

interior

the punk rock girl’s

family's time

in their apartment

is threatened

because they lack

money and her father

spends his time

and loses their money

playing dominoes

in a tin-shuttered room

the punk rock

girl robs a french

man of the money

he gave her for

time in bed

the film is her

gradually

mastering control

of her own mortal

time and when

explorers arrived to

a distant pacific island

and explained

to the native

people what their

pocket watches do

measuring

the divided up portions

of the day and night

the natives laughed

so hard that

they began to cry