MIMI-MONA POETRY: What's Luck Got To Do With It?

©What's Luck Got to Do with It?

Mimi Wolske, May 2014

Mimi Wolske - Mona Arizona™

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Mexico...where we can dance to Mariachi

music that rings like hammered tin and

voices singing in Spanish barber-shop harmony.

The heat and dust of Arizona are not left there

but the silver moon's soft light over the

sandy beach is a more romantic setting.

Who can resist El Camino del Diablo,

the Devil's Highway, with warnings of

wild animals, drug smugglers, and unexploded ordnances?

There is a road that is more like a narrow trail

through the desert, like a wolf chasing its

elusive prey, like driving down a bobsled run of soft sand.

Blushing at overt sexuality, a lexicon of

double entendres, and our masks of

x-rated desires, we laugh at banal words like coger.

We christen each of the cities we enter

with lips locked in a public display

of affection for each other and for Mexico.

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