Something Good To Eat (National Poetry Writing Month)
At my house, every week we have "Fiesta Friday." After my haircut, I drive to probably my favorite restaurant in Los Angeles and buy two orders of Tacos Supreme (made with veggie meat, I hear) which my wife enjoys. I then drive them home and we watch TV or work or whatever before trying to go to sleep early, so we can go to her dance instruction job in the morning (I keep an eye on the baby, strapped to me and sleeping, while she teaches).
That gave me this ...
Lighting straight from Barry White fantasiesI've been a patron at Simply Wholesome for maybe fifteen years. I've eaten more chicken and curry and seafood patties than I'd rather think about. One of the owners, April, has a daughter that my wife taught dance to. They helped cater our wedding too. It's a great place, and it deserves to be recorded.
clashes with Masai shields
or does it?
Earth tone and stone,
Bob Marley and India.Arie,
Jamaican patties and bean pie,
healthy heartbeat of Black Los Angeles
on corner of Slauson and Overhill.
Friday nights you'll always see
the easy rider
Black cowboy hat
tinted wire rim glasses
black chaps
like a vegetarian gunslinger
makes his home
back to balcony glass
eyes on every exit
his steed Harley Davidson waiting,
hungrily,
outside.
Hipster clerks
have served as cultural barometer
for more than a decade.
Today, thick rimmed glasses
low riding jeans
and Africa medallions (worn ironically).
In 1994 it was
Cross Colours
biker shorts
and Africa medallions (worn politically).
Los Angeles Sentinel and Final Call headlines
marquee names for media
while bookstore offers competing diet plans
grocery shelves stocked just one or two items deep.
Dreadlocks and police shields
bump shoulders over electrolyte rich water.
Throwback jerseys and lapa skirts
in front of backdrop of cars
always cars,
first on east side of street
following setting sun to new home
... and happy to be one to you.
"Ode to Simply Wholesome"
By Hannibal Tabu
Watching (Hulu): Flash Forward, "The Garden of Forking Paths"
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Labels: food, napowrimo, poetry, restaurants, tacos, writing
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