My New Home 862 S.W. 6th street

You apartment is the one on the
Third up,
End of the hall,
To your right.
To my right?
Landlord tone...Yes.
Enter through the gaping mouth.
Columns crumbled like Pompei.
The one at the end of the hall,
Huh.
Cracked sheet-rock jail walls
On your left to right browsings
Standing tall to white paint layered OLD.
Standing in a Kool-Aid pool.
Three steps in, cement dirt.
Thirty-three left round and round...plateau,
Up over mucky nylon office rug,
Gum stained, foot shit drain,
Steps, one by one, regressing time,
Up, up, STOP.
Your apartment hole is the one
on the third,
End of the hall,
To your right.
Second floor.
Absently vicious image in
Newspaper address circled in red.
The day before, now present in the past.
Dirty world of Old Deco, Old white walls,
Roots growing in paint of imaginary trees.
For lamp posts now looming outside
Smirk sparks of inadequacy.
A welcoming toothless hello, keep moving
Under the replica of ancient worlds
Inside people who dirty this filth
Some more in their present truth.
They claim the
'monkeys that came before us Did this, All of this'.
Your A-partment is the one on the
Third up,
End of the hall,
To your right...
Third floor.
Here the passageway is spotted
with blood from legions
Of regimented refugees reciprocating
reincarnations.
Walls?
Olive-leaf thin and oily divisions
for the living in the living quarters
Matter not.
Maybe the rats, spiders, and lice
Mind the good healthy wood
from the monkeys that do good
From their moldy small cot.
Now in, my mouth gaping like the front door.
Out back, the Asphalt Kings
with their crowns of neon light murkiness
Jabber, steal, and smile gold
Into Grandmama night.
Beep, beep, worn stripes on streets,
Roof leaks and dirty bare feet, shut doors
Creak.
Carbon monoxide grins greet,
Closed fists exchange insults
In my new home,
862 S.W. 6th street.
This is your Apartment
The one on the third up,
End of my halls,
Welcome mats laugh at me.
I'll take IT.
Landlord tone...Enjoy.
                                
                                                            -RIO