imagine alabama
a rectangle if you will
not really some sort of growth

at its bottom left (my rights!)
southshore reaching for broken
shrimpboats sleeping under

the gulf of mexico two
tiny legs far too tiny
for such a shaped body sort

of rectangular rhomboid
rhomboidian rhomboidesque
perhaps a bit too forward

no centre of gravity
to be found in the comfort
of a storm by the ports for

the ports on the balls of poor
feet aching knotted cords washed
up after math morning shores

imagine a la bamba
played by four hands some small school
dim gymnasium full of

coughs rustles jimmies karens
banners honouring gators
who swam in these long waters

before mexico had gulfs
before alabama was
an aberrant rhomboidish

littlelegs long LONG before
four hands imagined dancing
on the beach before the storm

small man boy really only
seventeen mexican man
born in los angeles sings

a song his mother sung to
small dim school gymnasiums
when he was just a twinkle

of notes so soft on the keys
joyful plinkplonk ringing out
in the upper classes of

a dim school gymnasium
piano somewhere outside
montgomery aldergrove

home of the gators or else
some dusty church bible belt
basement or hall dim besides

pianos have no notion
of christs or peters small white
and blacks keys under smaller

hands imagining dancing
gators not square some sorta
rectangular rhomboidic

shapes who've never been to church
except to play la bamba
for hands so far from the gulf 

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