Beach Time
10-12-20 // Poetry - New Orleans
Rodrigo Toscano

Photo by Yousef Espanioly
All y’all:
Alabama flagger flyin’
Cajun dinghy riggin’
Creole beignet flippin’
Texas gravel haulin’
Georgia trailer hicthin’
Mississippi mud draggin’
…Gentlemen…can we talk?
All y’all:
Emerald Coast revelers
Ruby Coast ragers
Sapphire Coast rompers
Pearl Coast plungers
Onyx Coast splashers
Diamond Coast flap abouters
I mean, catch, toss, kick around a bit:
Bent key capitalism
Worn key capitalism
Broken key capitalism
Lost key capitalism
Wrong key capitalism
Keyless fob dead battery capitalism
Not the right time?
I want to agree,
but ripples over there you can see
the white caps of a dark, purple wave
welling up, curling over, sucking in
the water’s edge of time
and space
to dream
and drift
