Best Yucatan Poems

Yucatan, etc.

Cortez, DeMille are gone.
It's now the locus
of postgraduate honeymoons,
urban fugues, a minor literary genre.

Knowledge and ejection predispose us
to technological parody--
antique busses, burros, plumbing, pyramids--
as if nothing ever caught on.

There is no CHRONOLOGY, the pace and mores
are too counterproductive--
poster Indians pee along the road,
the women...

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Traveling through the land, 
I was told that I would receive hot food 
once I reached the YUCATAN. 
My taste buds are of fire 
As the flame kisses my lips and tongue. 
Oh Pavlov, can you see my salivation? 
A fire that is sweet and...

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When the Sea is spread out against the gray clouded skies,
 
Sunrise quiet gives us sweet songs of the tropical birds of the of the Yucatan,

Daybreak warm gulf breezes playing with the leaves of the palm trees,

Euphoria in Cancun.

Natives in raincoats out enjoying their dog...

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