Same Way Midnight

we walked

around the unsettled neighborhoods of Edge City

the SAME WAY

we walked the MIDNIGHT afueras
de Ciudad de Oaxaca de Juárez

(sucking the ancient burro marrow on back pathways)
between the Heaven and Hell
     of riotous Zapotec

     hidden Teotitlán del Valle
THE WHITE MEN
only see trees and rock
a cathedral
a basketball court
   sewage of saintly peasants

we drank homemade mezcal
from the used
     plastic jugs
sat on the roof
     watched the sun set
over old Mexican dusty mesas

and talked of the OCEAN