five dollar coffee, two dollar therapy, blue bus, gold line, blue pills, Hollywood sign
Disney’s mousetrap behind Orange Curtain the future of western civilization is uncertain
Echo Park and overpriced artists studio after Mi Vida Loca goes to video
thrift turned vintage, bottle of water as third appendage brownstones in Bel Air, Oxycontin cocktails
street merchants of Venice, tattooed arms like black licorice shaky beachfront property, make your first mil at thirty
Bloods, Crips, La Raza, and Yo Momma leaf blowers and star fuckers, botox parties, power yoga, pilates
sweet sixteen silicone implants pre-nup signed at next off ramp
valley of dildos, backyard beat-offs strip-mall gang bangs, designer handbags
bejeweled cell phones fake rhinestones sigalert on the 405, Amber alert on the 105
Scientology and ECT, surfs up in P.V. white collar screenplays written on weekdays
show your ass crack, be a star and starve starve starve
The Standard, The Mondrian, The Château Marmont Melrose, Mel Ramos, sado-masochism as art
Chinatown, Downtown, Koreatown troubles come not in ones or twos but in battalions
take the 210 to the 134 to the 101 to the 5 to the 10 to highway one the Pacific Coast, the golden hour, the smoking gun
Armine Iknadossian