MY FAVORITE POET IN TOWN
My favorite poet in town
is a candy apple red '67 Pontiac GTO
on a slow motion careen
through the Mission at Sunday sunrise.
I hear that it once ran
on nitro and Jim Beam;
now overhauled, burning cleaner
Flames pluming off its rear wheels
dissolve into Yakuza ink and air,
all lost on those who only await
the parting of iron bodega gates.
About the Author: Michael Layne Heath is a writer and poet, with a number of chapbooks published, primarily by Kendra Steiner Editions, San Antonio. He is also a veteran freelance music writer, and the compiler of My Week Beats Your Year: Encounters With Lou Reed, published by Hat & Beard Press, Los Angeles. Michael lives a stone’s throw from the Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco.
Image Credit: Carol M. Highsmith “Untitled mural located in Balmy Alley, Mission District, San Francisco, California” (2012) Public domain image courtesy of the Library of Congress
As It Ought To Be 