Watch the heat roll

across the sand, 

stretch the air 

like blond betty yoga

sun salutation, tan no pants 

hey hey surfer man

bronzed so good 

on the California barbeque,

babelicious booty 

take me for a ride on your wave

and teach me how to stand, 

balance my beach

is stuck to the backs of my legs,

and a rainbow poncho

to warm me up from the clear cold water:

the cloudy morning before

family darlings show up to book

their silly bellies like whales:

we are being watched grey 

from the ramped and covered

lifeguard stands swept of stray sand

blown in the night when no one was watching

or waiting for someone to start to drown,

only slipping under silkily in the night

under the come guzzling breakers

all fornicating felicitously

as forgotten fortune teller palm readings 

on brick Pearl Street in Boulder

followed me thru the mountains, 

through the unforgiving desert

that could bury me shallow 

under the Joshua trees

and walking cacti 

carried by their very roots 

towards any water they can find off a fly 

away to Huntington,

past the nasty L.A. smug-filled lung

hanging like dirt clods,

suffocating the trees to emaciation,

asphyxiation, evisceration, 

liposuction the city 

all nit-gritty: I'd rather have another hit

of sex drugs and dubstep, 

rocknrolla kids for John Lennon 

Nixon made him an enemy of the state 

because visions of peace are scary 

to a nation that prides its history

on violent victories and modern slavery

is a bad trip twisting

that metaphorical knife around

for the thousandth time--

how are we not dead yet? 

like taking an RPG to the head and living

to get with a Romanian chick, I can't wait

to go on leave so I can get high,

everybody just wants to get higher

than the last time, up the dose 

on my anti-depressive, over the counter 

under the dark dawning zombie apocalypse

would solve all of my immediate problems:

get me to the Dick's Sporting Goods,

the one one next to Weiss supermarket

and the Patient First, we got all we need to survive--