Orange County

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Copia Latin root of Copy abundant (Connotation: Wealth)

            Sub    [less  than]    Urban.

My parent choose Plan 3d (3 stands for 3 car garage. D. stands for deluxe floor plan)

            Watched it grow.        Skeletal pine. Stucco                   

                                                                        Paradise of imitation Spain

 

Los Angeles River     Cement Highway of Rain God

I ride my bike to the beach (10 miles)

past     Plan 3a’s 2b’s 3c’s              My head filled with brochures.

            the waves,             the flat sea,                  stretching to Urban Tokyo.

 

 [Abundant],             miles and miles of              Sidewalk.       After  thought

            of architect,                      Picture frame,   Wide

 as a hungry mouth.                  Surrendered to the Auto-less

 

We wander miles               of sidewalk that connects nowhere

            to nowhere.   We spend hours in 3 (car garages)

 

Or 2 and smoke pot.

            While our mothers sit on the edge of couches

In sunken living rooms

            Smoking cigarette after                cigarette.            .

 

 

 

~ by Christopher Leibow on May 7, 2008.