El Rio De La Verdad

The brown river is a whore

running through downtown San Antonio

washing away

the sins of respectable people

the banker

who fleeces everyone

the doctor

who cheats on his wife with Candy Stripers

the vicious D.A.

who always looks the other way for the powerful

the rich man

who still practices slavery

the young wife who’s spun 

out of control on our favorite drugs

her husband

fishing on the river

down by the Spanish missions

God abandoned long ago.