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XXIII
Mexicans use concrete structures as houses
Which keep heat like ovens
Beneath
The North Mexican desert sun
Up on the foothills
A cool breeze was to be had
By sleep’n on the roof
In this poor mountain village
Not one night had passed
My missionary companion & I woke
To see football-sized concrete boulders
Shatter’n inches from our heads
The un-entertained poor
Showered down meteorites from the mountains
Crash’n in heaps
All around us
_
Ain't nothing new
From remains
Left by un-entertained poor
I’d seen so far
Dogs been bound by wire
& Burnt alive
Dogs dangling from the nooses
Lashed on trees
Puppies poisoned
Into excruciating deaths
For sport from want of recreation
_
This was my missionary companion’s
First & only area on his mission
He hurt himself
In attempts to be excused honorably home
I never understood why he left
.
.
.
I arrived in Hong Kong
With nowhere to go
I took 5 trains
To the islandic mountains
After meeting friends
We ate at a
Remote white-sanded beach
Rumor told of a waterfall
Just around the mountain side
Tho it was late
My companions headed out
As dusk came
A waterfall to leap from
Is worth whatever risk
Under the hot Hong Kong sun
I climbed
Up & over the mountainside
To the back reaches
To the waterfall
To arrive alone
At the last rays of day
&
Take the leap
Into untested dark waters
.
.
.
Once as I hitch'd to Canada
The guy give'n me the lift
Offered me a job with his brother Jeff
I built houses with that
Sect of Polygamists
All summer long in Montana
I will never forget
‘ Jeff you know we are related
‘ In about 4 different ways
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