Nowhere Man

2013 was supposed to be
a new beginning

they would take
to the sea

they would go
to that land

the priests
had shouted about

from the top
of the temples

on Roosevelt Street
1957

a Mexican
about forty eight or so

tried to
supersede his life

a crumpled brown paper bag
lay on the cracked sidewalk

Mayans
nowhere to be found

it irked him
that his raza was nowhere too