Hot Mango Flush

Hot mango flush
Ladies with ice cream hair
Gyroscopic pink neon beams
Everybody’s happy about something
The crowd moves like a flock of starlings:
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
Hot mango flush
Doe-eyed ragamuffin mumbling
Scolded for some vague infraction
Stole a penny candy-colored
Sweetheart kiss down at the market
Down at the market all the world
Seems to simmer:
Hot mango flush
Hot mango flush
Ladies with ice cream hair
Gyroscopic pink neon beams
Everybody’s happy about something
The crowd moves like a flock of starlings:
They switch direction as one
Jive on the jukebox Jack and Joker
Split the night air with whoop and holler
Stole a penny candy-colored
Sweetheart kiss down at the market
Down at the market all the world
Seems to simmer:
Hot mango flush
Hot mango flush