People Poems · PHOTO-0115

miami smoke yellow

Design District, Miami

Original typewritten page for miami smoke yellow by Chris the Poet

Transcription

where there's smoke, there's fire... or so the chisme goes & water is wet & sand is dry _& the sun becomes yellow from orange as it rises in the sky first over the island of miami beach then over the county where the real stuff can be found--real life in all its humid messiness, the workers & the natives, the trade & traffic of life pulsating through the ways, through roads & streets & avenues, highways,, expressways, turnpikes, the very limestone pores through which our lifeblood flows, all the way to the sacred glades where the sun finally comes to lay its flushing face to rest,, falling to sleep down the horizon... all this is so, just like smoke signifying fire or water being wetee+ WY ee