Hot mango flush.
Ladies with ice cream hair -
Gyroscopic pink neon beams -

Everybody's happy about something.
The crowd moves like a flock of startings: they
switch direction as one.

Jive on the jukebox - Jack and Joker
split the night air with whoop and holler.
Faint aroma - wood smoke, old fish,

diesel harbour, roadside mongrel,
painted man with buttons barely
holding, bursting belly bulging.

Doe-eyed ragamuffin mumbling -
Scolded for some vague infraction.
Stole a penny candy-coloured

sweetheart kiss down at the market.
Down at the market all the world
seems to simmer:

Hot mango flush.