She wakes on pink curlers
in the chintz Bronx bedroom
where merchants flocked
to hot walk-ups
and housewives boffed seltzermen
behind fake swank
brick apartments
of the Grand Concourse
Freedomland, Freedomland
Mom sat me on a stool
in Walter's Luncheonette schooldays
same spot the Happyland Disco
got love torched in ‘90
Jews and Latinos
burst in the Spanish sky
ramalama beach chair cuchifritos baby
Land of hairnets, fuck me shoes
transistor radios, fat Buicks
men in hats with sons who went mad
became monstrous hippies
lost Mecong Delta boys
vegetarians, slum landlords

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