April 5 on the Tren (y No De "Aragua," Güey)

 

We need more memoirs
About failure
O que não deu certo
Lo que no salió bien
The road more taken
But not wanted
Still
On the Blue Line
Route to a protest
Trumpets of a banda ballad
From an iphone speaker
Graffiti in 6-foot letters
Says: TWO ORGASMS
Then a building:
Headstone Monuments
Factory Direct
312-481-78?7
(shaky tren)
The Picasso perched over
Daley Plaza
Exoskeleton augur
Of something light
Or dark
I can’t say
Which