CALOKIE
Where Blackbirds Meet
Thursdays
at Santa Anita still free day for seniors
Only
day I go now
Shut
out since two weeks ago when I won $35 from
$2
place bet which gave me winning day on one bet
Blackbirds
no longer hang around northeast corner
of
pavilion where we smoked cigars
and
you fed feathered homies corn chip bits
after
we made our bets
They
don’t race on Wednesdays any more
Maybe
why I haven’t seen Angel lately
Hope
so
He’d
be about 85 if he’s still around
I
see Cigar Bob from time to time
He’s
retired now
Joe
just had a surgery but still in his low-eighties
driving
to Santa Anita and that Indian Casino
Talk
about perseverance
David
moved to Georgia with his Dixie blonde
I
hope he’s near a place
he
can buy his daily pan dulce
and
enjoy good tamales
like
we ate at cafe near the Mercado
You
never know
the
way the original people of this continent
are
spreading throughout the land
taken
from their ancestors
Last
time I saw David he flew back here for 2012 Breeders cup
Guess
what! I ran into Trifecta Bob
Never
forget the $600 wager he won
during
David’s birthday bash at Santa Anita’s infield
Remember
Daryl Hannah—
the
mermaid movie star who sat in tallest tree
on
South Central farm before pulled from it and arrested
by
those protecting and serving the 1%—
It
was sick the way those Mother Earth fuckers bulldozed
the
orchards and crops of over 350 farming families,
wasn’t
it?
Anyway
she was also arrested in Washington D.C.
protesting
the building of carbon time bomb--
the
Tar Sands Keystone Pipeline
Some
things don’t change, do they?
Republicans
still
against minimum wages
affordable
healthcare for all and want to
privatize
social security, medicare, public education, everything
except
our privacy
Of
course, Democrats aren’t so hot on
last
two things themselves,
are
they?
You
know Saginaw
who
we saw at all those pow wows
also
acts in movies
I
read about him in Native Peoples
He
gave the opening prayer during last pow wow I attended
at
the state park near China town
Longest
prayer I ever heard outside a Baptist church
Anyway
when they invited everybody to join the round dance
I
tossed to drumbeat upon sacred ground last
of
your allotted ashes one week after the first was spread
where
blackbirds meet
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