Wrote this while prowling the streets in one of my favorite cities in 2007.  Lived there a couple of years. 

 

Nashville

is hot

Like

blasphemy

With hunks

of heavy air

Cruising

city streets

Bruising

The innocent

 

Like urban

gangs

They infiltrate

The wine-scented

alleyways

Riddled with

Honky tonks

And roust

The ghosts

Of  empty orgasms

 

A dose

of truth

In this city

Of rumpled dreams