schools, universities
and espresso stands
bars and jails
(with both good and bad)
churches and department stores,
hand-outs and fireworks
infinitely diverse ethnic cuisine,
beautiful primitive burger stands
vast legions of drug-dealers
of greatly varying professionalism,
lining up to defy the law,
for varying reasons
conservative farm families
and lawyers who dress like cowboys,
sturdy mehicano farm hands
upbeat radio songs
and anarchic psych wards,
countless psychiatrists' offices,
counselors too
vast open libraries,
museums everybody pays for
and nobody goes to
vast forests cut through
by sleek highways,
dismal cities and beautiful thriving deserts
