They built us a new stadium
full of empty seats
To find parking
just drive down the streets
Guess what you’ll find
$10 parking
“No blocking” signs
Just like old times
That’s so Miami.
(Lisa Ruiz)
Mother Miami, tattooed and wrinkly old mistress
with crows feet run over in filthy tears, “Was she ever beautiful?”
How embarrassing,
that her sons and daughters know not days before eyes smeared with mascara;
that her sons and daughters know not days before nails torn to the severed root.
Memories of your scars are fading now,
covered over and over with new tags, on the Wynwood walls of her heart,
over stories of the golden old days everyone forgot.
“That’s so Miami.”
(Robert Vicens)
A lot of color everywhere, buzz of all kind of languages,
smiles all around, tropical music wrapped on that breeze
from the beaches, the feel of constant relaxation. That’s so Miami.
(Adan Canizalez, Pembroke Pines, FL)
Tremenda gente
Friday night at Dolphin Mall
Dame un churro
That’s so Miami.
Art in town-used to be not
Everyone excited we’re a culture spot
Rally round dancers, painters too
Art takes us someplace new.
That’s So Miami.
(Dennis Scholl)
Orchids in the breeze
Mangroves, Everglades, palm trees
Alabo, it’s hot.
That’s so Miami.
(Tatiana Hernandez)
Where summer means gray skies,
hot rain, ravenous mosquitos and empty streets,
That’s so Miami.
Buying a cortadito on Calle Ocho
A man tells me he has 11 chihuahuas
9 with their own apartment in Guayaquil
And 2 in Miami. That’s so Miami.
