Fall 2007 / Spring 2008

Boom Town

by Isaac Chavarria

from father's porch
and city
on the grow,
providing workers, services
for a first class ride
to upper lower class,
from the stand-alone
WIC lines
and seizing of
indigenous alien
cracker barrel
philosophy
picking the thorn
and pitching it back
so more gravel
than pavement street
of shoeless children
and pamper tax break
stops being the way of life
so terrible enough to inspire
a bottle of cheap Puerto Rican rum
mixed with thrift store cola.