Waking up in mexico

working
scab in
the refineries of
sunny SoCal
on payday
we used to go to
Curly's in signal
hill
order black bulls
and buy steaks off the
backs of frig trucks

for one in a hundred
the bar cashed our
checks and filled us
with drinks
we’d score speed
black beauties
yellow jackets
cross tops
and weed
from the dealers
that waited with
the hookers
a little for now
the rest to get us
through the week

we were wild and
brutal
drinking
drugging
puking
then working
I had to quit when I
woke up in
mexico

J. Masuda © 2004
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