Layers

Four rednecks

wash a 4×4

at 9 pm,

1 block over

a short Guatemalan

flies north

on his bike.

 

A homeless couple

share love

in the liquor

store parking lot,

her street walker

skirt pulls high

as she stretches

for their embrace.

 

The gay prom

is packed

with shiny people

being as lovely-perfect

as society seems to

think they aren’t

 

the hooker

in dirty jeans

raids the free

condoms jar

under the smiling blessing

of the very

gay center director

 

culture is dirt

stacked a certain way,

here it lies

in the street,

on skin,

mostly in generations.