Hot Mango Flush

Hot mango flush
Ladies with ice cream hair -
Gyroscopic pink neon beams -
Everybody's happy about something
The crowd moves like a flock of startlings: they
Switch direction as one
Jive on the jukebox - Jack and Joker
Split the night air with whoop and holler
Faint aroma - wood smoke, old fish
Diesel harbour, roadside mongrel
Painted man with buttons barely
Holding, bursting belly bulging
Doe-eyed ragamuffin mumbling -
Scolded for some vague infraction
Stole a penny candy-coloured
Sweetheart kiss down at the market
Down at the market all the world
Seems to simmer:
Hot mango flush