This truck and many others like it are among the legions of mundane heros that keep the LA juggernaut in full tilt, every day without fail. It’s going to rain again today, that’s why the money taker isn’t wearing her trademark snakeskin print jeans. She knows us all by name, but prefers to call us Corazon or Baybee – comforting in a most unusual way. The cook slings all orders, yelled into the window by the workers, in less than ten minutes. My kind of efficiency.
Sure, there are firefighters and cops and a great many others who'd happily run into a burning building to save you as you clutch your Abba records, but nothing tears up my Man-tang more and makes me smile as much as when I see the Taco Truck, bringer of tasty, greasy, hope.
*****
For your listening pleasure, Barry Manilow
5 comments:
Oh this is very good, very important! This should go next to all poems dedicated to pigeons.
The taco truck is one of the best things about living in Los Angeles and especially those high end lunch trucks. Yum yum yum. ..
We've actually planned a Tour De Taco where we ride around from taco truck to taco truck in one night. .. .
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Can San Fran give you this? huh? Maybe we found what makes this spray tan town worthwhile...
Yes! Lots of taco trucks in San Francisco. But the weather really isn't great. I often find myself craving some of that LA heat. This is a damp, 53-68 degree town.
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