CUL-DE-SAC

Men drink coffee in the parking lot each morning

By the massage parlor on the corner of Menlo 

By the Pho King restaurant and the Hoa My beauty salon

Yer on… El Cajon Boulevard.

Where the Rapid Bus 215, not so rapid, passes Domino’s Pizza

El Pollo Loco and Wing Lee Poultry where they have no crazy chicken.

Where the Goodbody Mortuary used to be Blessed Sacrament church.

Now at Goodbody the once-good bodies are laid down in caskets

Lined with joss that pays their way into paradise.

They pave a way into paradise as broad the Boulevard

At the new Blessed Sacrament Church and Kingdom Covenant on El Cajon

Where a Mexican place and an Italian place called Etna Ristorante right next door serve

Asada-Adobada-Cabeza-Pizza-Pasta-Salads-Italian dinners

That’s what they say and they say it on the sidewalk shade.

The North Park water tower towers over Roberto’s taco shop just past 30th

Where the Boulevard starts to clean up on the sly

Can’t keep out folks who wanna gentrify.

You can’t keep away the sidewalks pridewalks prostitutes and laundromats

You can’t stop drinking at that bar, the ‘Til Two.’ 

They’ll always bill you ’cause yer not alone on El Cajon.

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