Mexico City Flues

me and jack kerouc went wandering down this way before
but this time family business vacation
pyramides and barak obama visits
flyovers and hotel changes
misquitos and frida kahlo
devine intervention worth mention in the
second largest city on earth
mixed places mixed family races
we commite to embassy purchases
and find rental car manuvers
convient child care practices
staying outta subway trenches
with swine flu
in full bloom
we beat the outbreak
by one week
so far no sickies
not even intestinal distress
from the city with the best
i liked my stay
cockroach shadows stare me downs
confirmed kills
blood spats on white hotel walls
i got three the night we couldnt sleep
misquito death demonstrated
Coyoacon was where we would
start
the next time we're in town
Xochimilco tambien
where we did not
but driving to pyramids
in the dank daylight of thirty odd miles
north of mexico city
the light and distance make fools
of senses and lenses
climbing the pyramide del sol
no excuse for dropping babies from
slings on steep step decents
we do not do these things
but like
the lunch at precolombian pyramids
after driving the cobblestone parkinglot exit
getting taken over on the inside car
with passener's middle finger telling me
to
fuck off
what...
the overzealous credentialed cantina lunch saleswoman
with her 7 min. pitch
which works on us we realize stunned 'pulling in to spot #6

now we run scared
glued to reports
lost in translation
fuled by pyschosis
wrapped in self indulgence
we wrestle this wreck back to deeper
water
rescue teams have been established in
designated positions
communication systems have been provided for
meat and potatoes are part of the problem
insomuchas the money powering production
has taken the steps necessary
for human behavior basic functions to evaporate
over coporate profits
protien canabilism
feed the animal it's own kind for
fattening up

i sneeze and you cover
face masks cannot be found at convient stores
my family reconsiders boundries
lost and fraught with fright
reading accounts
deathtolls mounted in the 1918 regular influenza
worldwide panic
epicenter
god bless this mess
just a blip or a major dip.