MuthaFucka Ska echoes down empty splinterwood boardwalk
Low band of brown smog hides horizon between gray sea and gray sky
Copper casino, green filigree of swirling suns
Hollow now, all bets are off
“All this was rides once” she said
“Then it was pretty”
A surfer, expensive black wetsuit
Manages to stand in two foot waves
Near the sewer outfall
The last HoJo in New Jersey
(Yes, Bruce Springsteen was here
Tony Soprano too)
Has a roof like its spike-haired customers
Who lose their nose rings rolling down artificial dunes
The House of Good Intentions is boarded up
Gone to hell I guess
And Madame Marie knows; she KNOWS; she left
It’s 4: 20 pm 4/20/2002 in Asbury Park New Jersey USonofA.
Weird shit man!
Stewart McKenzie
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/landscape-08-4-20-day-in-asbury-park-nj/
