Yellow Red Blues

yellow red blue
     flashing
yellow red blue

neon littered faces
vacancy signed
stoop dwellers
dope dazed
talkin' shoe shines
crystal eyed
talkin' shoe shines

hot tamale temper
3rd floor walk-up
window hopping mad
      cursing
hombre/ nino/ lover 
shots fired
no one inquires

back alley moans 
drunk john  
strokes his gun
     she can't run
pimp sees 
bloody shiv retrieved 
slaps her to the ground

trash cans bongo 
traffic creeps
radios radiate
big city beat
siren searing 
grimacing art
gut wrenched blues
tears you apart

     flashing 
yellow red blue
     flashing
yellow red blue
      .................
Saturday night in America
can break your heart