Zocalo, Mexico City

“Raffy the guard  

off my body” 

She slurs screwing  

Vespucci sailor’s  

bottle cap   

(No molestaré  

no iré)  

On my part  

a mistake, innocent  

I sit back down 

Nahuatl the (un)loving tongue 

In Tēōtl’s earthly basin  

flooding is common  

ripples of black on white water  

deadly  

Bar stool scrapes  

over comes pimp Raffy  

black beard snickering  

the local tēōtl 

& destroyer  

of all men  

who come near his property  

"Money first, asshole" 

(but in Spanish) 

Only wanted  

to buy her 

a drink 

Not buying this 

Tēōtl starts to thunder 

Aztec river  

run  

very quick,  

— tourist