The blue starts the steps,
Blue with black guns, belts, radios ….
Gray rain pours, then drizzles ….
Green and white look on,
Green and white
With more black guns, belts, radios ….
Some white,
White striped with black,
Locals ….
They look on
Now, walk on, up onto the wet sidewalk,
Up and up, and then, a slippery walk
Back down to Mexico ….
Muddy black and brown pants and shorts.
Muddy white T-shirts.
Finally, the orange,
Mexico’s migrant-protection bright ….
Into orange mini pickups,
Backs open, man upon man,
Dark and wet,
And the orange-vest driver
Stops for a soda, and the
Men crunch ….
The gray rain and drizzle
Curtain the pickup, streets ….
