Mexico

"Write about Mexico"

My friend and co-conspirator

advised me..."Mexico is hot

right now!"  Of course it is...

but what's different about it

worth mentioning?

Mexico is fiesta, interrupted

by moments of work.

Like Canada, it isn't so noticed,

beneath the din of USA, a nice

"buffer" zone outside the turmoil

of the rest of the world.

Mexicans march around...doesn't

really matter what for...the State,

Saints, protests, celebrations...they

just like to march around, brass

bands blaring, making a show of it

happily, revolution ongoing and over,

conquest a memory and a living scar,

cartels a hopeless given, passionate

pride in whatever they happen to be

thinking at the time. Tourists, 

conglomerates, invade and exploit

identical to Spaniards in armor, same

as it ever was.

Shamans ingest peyote, ayahuasca, carry

the only real traditions left, perhaps in the

Western Hemisphere, for the people 

fortunate enough for the encounter, the

survivors of the great plague of the mind

of European expansion.

Still areas of autonomy, not worth the

effort to conquer, havens of life before

humanity lost its mind. Timeless, 'til the

times finally catch up.