Drive In

Pale blue and pink hooded tumbleweeds Roll down the concrete corridor Orange sodium vapor half lights Half lit yellow tagged parking lot Illuminated fake plastic trees all in a row While acetylene fires stroke an ultramarine sky Under stars Corner homeless stumps and slumps and dumps Warmed by desolation desert asphalt steam pumps Electronic red laser reader Smiling chain link razor wire jerk off greeter “How are you today, Mr. Jones?”