Old Town Albuquerque, NM
Historic casings house
bad art,
plastic trinkets made in China.
Old people wearing khakis,
white hats,
push past the doorway.
Crowding shelves of coffee mugs,
three dollar t-shirts,
tacky key chains,
stating, I’ve been there.
A faded sign, a faded door
the last historic art form.
Competing,
with hot pink, buzzing neon signs.
A blackened doorknob remains.
Varnished with the oils
of a thousand hands.