Skid Row Joe

Young old Prostitutes with jack o lantern teeth
the one with the nice smile tells me she can take them out for love or
do i want to buy them,she has more in her tent

skid row building contractors argue over the cardboard boxes
constant wailing sirens the soundtrack of my life

a nonstop parade of shopping carts with crazy wheels
going nowhere filled with dumpster treasures

hunchbacked crack mutants scan the sidewalk and assemble a pile of ? smoking U.F.O-Unidentified frying objects hiss in their pipe

Rats as big as lap dogs
carry one of those in your purse Paris Hilton

Dried chamois faced misfits litter the sidewalk
Gottaquarter gottaquarter gottaquarter they chant as they seem to
rust away

Basketball player sized transvestites with size 14 heels and 5 oclock shadows stare at me with famished hunger

Knock Knock whose there? the devil dwells on my doorstep
wiggling my locked doorknob, I resist another day
forcing the prison guards to cancel my reservation for one

Bullet holes and grafitti tattoo my space
I pretend my head is on novacaine. numb rubbery and
uncordinated or else flip my wig.

coils of feces but no dogs

spoiled milk(?) vomit and urine perfume the breeze
Hazmat in their spacesuits and pressure washers
wash dreams and futures in the gutter down the drain

Yep this is the gutter. Im glad Im still face up
and can see the stars.

-Santacruz-