This photo of Omar was taken by Karen Harlow McClintock.
There is an article by her at La Bloga about Omar.

Luis Omar Salinas left this world on May 25,2008.
He will continue his gypsy wanderings in a better world.

 Crazy Gypsy

I

I am Omar
  the crazy gypsy
          nimble footed
              and carefree

              I write poems
                on walls
                   that crumble
                          and fall

I talk to shadows
  that sleep
       and go away
           crying

I meet fearless girls
  who tell me
      their troubles
          my loneliness
             bottled up in their
               tummy

II

I am Omar
  the crazy gypsy
    I write songs
       to my dead mother
            hurl stones
                at fat policemen
                     and walk on sea weed
                          in my dreams

I walk away from despair
    like a horse walks away
       from his master
            end up in jail
                eating powdered eggs
                     for breakfast

III

My spine shakes
      to the songs
            of women

I am heartless and lonely
     and I whistle a tune
         out of one of my dreams

       where the world
             babbles out loud
                 and Mexican hat check girls
                      do the Salinas Shuffle
                           a dance composed
                              by me on one
                                  of my nightmares
                                      and sold
                                  for a bottle
                                     of tequila.

IV

I am Omar
   the crazy gypsy
         I waltz through avenues
                     of roses
           to the song
                of Mariachis

V

I am Omar
             the Mexican gypsy
I speak of love
     as something
               whimsical and aloof
as something
            naked and cruel
I speak of death
             as something inhabiting
the sea
             awkward and removed
I speak of hate
             as something
nibbling my ear