Strippers

where i come from
the mountains surround
in waves poised to break
and in the towns there
are no strippers who take
off their clothes and twirl
tassles from their tits
but where i live now
people break in waves and
there are no strippers who
scrape away the hillsides and
leave ribbons around like some
great Christo art work
that won't go away

label: 
October 1983