605 Strawberries
Luivette Resto-Ometeotl is a Citrus College English instructor and founder of the online literary magazine www.crescendoreview.com. |
| Sitting
in infamous LA traffic on the 605 between Ramona and Valley Boulevard my eyes drift to the hunched over people looking back at me through strawberry fields a row of “ñ’s” minus the tildes. |
Never rising for a break
they pick the freshest strawberries later dipped by Beverly Hills chocolatiers, sliced into fruit platters, placed as a garnish next to the entrée. |
Scenic views of 80 foot power lines and lottery billboards with the caption “your eyes don’t deceive you” loom over the organic while cars sit and stare like a patrón waiting for his quota to be met. |
From the first rise of stock brokers, actors, TV executives revving their six figure Lamborghinis, to the vertical stretch of muscle and bone massaged by red tinted fingers amalgamated with the sweetness of fruit and the salt of commerce as sustenance and sustenance meet. |
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