let's go

Originally appeared at COLDNOON in February 2018. That site is now defunct, alas.
[Update: it's back up! Here is the original link]

let's go

let's go to Café Schilling and read a newspaper

like our parents used to do

where you can get a café con leche and I'll get a green tea

and we'll listen to the bloopy music

watching the tourists

and becoming annoyed by loud arrogant spanish men

but we'll both want to make out with the camarera

with her tattoos and converse high-tops and black tights and attitude

and we'll discuss whether the people camping out in la Plaça de Catalunya

are effectively protesting government austerity measures

and the IMF

and Spain's membership in the European Union

which itself seems set up to benefit France and Germany

though at the same time offering an economic challenge

to the Evil Empire of our own United States

or we could discuss whether the narcotraficantes basically

own Guatamala and Mexico like it appears

and what would happen if Americans stopped doing cocaine

or if Egypt will indeed become a democracy

or will the new boss be the same as the old boss

with the help of the American government or not

and basically we can discuss how guilty we feel

for being from America

and how helpless we feel

about affecting any change in US foreign policy

because with the deregulation of banks and corporate donations

more and more of our politicians do what Big Money says

but fuck it

finish your croissant

let's go to la playa

and let me slather sunscreen all over you