Appendix V:

The

LIFEBEGOOD

STOMPALONG

BLUES

 Lake Chapala in Ajijic, state of Jalisco, Mexico

Arón, one of Dr. Lorenzo’s teen help-team twosome

seeks tiny fresh-water clam shells

to take home to his little sisters

August, 2019

(to be read [or recited]

at an accelerating

TEMP-and-PACE

like a

TRUCK DOWNHILL

in NEUTRAL GEAR

no CRUISE CONTROL)

(emphasizing

syllables in bold-type a little

and those in medium CAPS

MORE

and in

HUGE CAPS

MOST)

it occurred to me

YESTERDAY

speeding from inland Lake Chapala

(chah-PAH-lah)

to Pacific Coast
that

This Most Beautiful Highway in the WORLD

(Almost?)

Deserved

Recognition

and Could be Divided into About 20 or Maybe

FORTYNINE THOUSANDTHREE

Distinct Phases Some-in-Several-Scattered-Pieces or Others

OVERLAPSED

Like

The

TWO-LANE LAKE-SIDE FIVE-VILLAGE
CRAWLTHROUGH

- Number One village:
Ajijic

Ah-he-HEEg!

Town of Eternal Spring Water Goddess YEEg!

and Two:

San Juan Cosalá

Coh-sah-LAH!

Hot Springs TOURISTTRAP

for CITYSUCKERS

Three:
Multiple Speed-bump REST-YOUR-AUNTS

from Guadalajara

All Day Sunday

beside

Oveflowed Lake

to

Mariachis Walking by Taco Table

DRUNK

Stuffed Chile Kids SCREAMING

SPEED-BUMP

SPEED-BUMP

Four:
Gringo HEAven-HAven in Squashed Lakeside Townhomes El Chanté

Ail-Chahn-TAY!

and
Five:
Another Soulless Townhome Project Like the Last

that Ruins the Natural Third-World Riviera Look of Twenty

YEARSGONEBY

And

The

Wider Dangling Cliffside Jocotepec (HO!-kuh-tuh-peck) BYPASS RACE-BUS
BOUNCEALONG

and

The

FOUR-lane BERRYland BLUEberries BLACKberries RASPberries STRAWberries GRAPEvines

Allofem White-Cloth-hidden

WHIZPAST

The

Narrowing Corn-Glen Ever-Upward Catholic-Orphanage

SLOWDOWN

Then

The

EASY-CHOICE INTER-section

Guadalajara Big-Thirdworld City-Zoo Giraffes Kiss-yr-Face

– or –

Manzanillo-zillo-zillo

Choose

Manzanillo

Mahn-zahn-EEEEE-yoh

Beaches-Beaches-Beaches Galore for Miles and Many So-Virgin They Call-Them INNOCENT-BUT-HOT

TURNLEFT

to Manzanillo

DON’TFORGET

And

The

Intro-to-Mexican HIGH-SPEED TURN-YOUR-PIKE ‘OX-XO’ SEVENY-LEAVENS

to Stock-Up on Ice-Cold

COKE-Caffeine

It’s-GONNA-get-

WARM-There

It’s All Downhill from Here

Like California Yosemite CROSS-VALLEY OVER-MOUNTAIN DOWN-TO-COAST DOWN-DOWN-DOWN to WARMER-HOTTER SANTA-CRUISE

STOP-TO-BUY

And then comes

The

Climbing-the-Rim over and into the Great Dry

LAKE-BASIN

FOUR-lane Separated

KILLYOURSELF

or a Mexican family from Guadalajara

and

The

big THANK YOU

for not KILLING-ME YET

still-too-much-to-DO

BLINK-YOUR-LIGHTS

And

The

You’re Welcome to COME-FROM-STATES

EXPERIENCE-YOURSELF

get-to-KNOW-YOURSELF

ME

as TOURGUIDE

SAVEYRLIFE

plus

The

Big

Nobody-ever-takes-me-up-on-this-offer

BOO-DE-HOO

and now
 

The

WHIRLIGIG-LAND

of FLAT DRY-LAKES

Lasting MILES-AND-MILES

Stop Boredom in Quintessentially Mexican Atoyac AH-tow-YACK Jalisco Hah-LEE-skoh

FARMTOWN

Heavenly Subtropical PALM-AND-PINE

Plaza for Fresh Dusty STREET-AIR-GRILLED

Tacos!

TAH KOHZE

REST-from-DAZE

Get the Real Back-country

HICK-MEX

SAVOR-FLAVOR

and

Free

SIDE-TOUR

No-added HIDDEN-CHARGE

LIFEGIVER

The

HEY-DOOD

THEY’RE

REAL PEOPLE

HERE

Just Like Your Father’s Simple Churchly Cousins in Ole Vuh-Ginny

CARRY-ME-BACK

with a Few Extra Noodles-n-Spoodles

CHILLY-SAUCE

CORNSHUCKerS

and

AUCTION-YR-PANTS

The

Emerald-Green Alpine Sugar-Cane Valley

MAKE-YOU-CRY

SO-O-OPRETTY

The

FOUR-Lane MILES-Long

TREETUNNEL

and
 

The

Forever-Lasting Big-Thunder Smoking All-Year-Long Puffing

VOLL-CANE-OH

no-joking Herbie!

Vulcan de Colima

Vool-KAHN-they-Koh-LEEE-mah

HOLD-YR-HAT

SKIRTABOUT

FARFROMHARM

exAckLY ten i said 10 miles from yr very own

fragile

Mommie’s

BELLYBUTTON

 the Colima Volcano (left) 12,989 ft.

– just one of Mexico’s several perennially active SMOKE-puffers –
(erupted 3 times in 2015)

and the Colima Snowpeak (right) 14,365 ft.

are just over to the right of your car

about halfway down

driving from inland Lake Chapala

to the Pacific coast at Manzanillo

followed by

The

 No Wonder Then, Thems Comes to States

with Life Hot as Fiery Planet

Breathin’-down Precious

BABYNECK

The

OffiSuh SIR

i Needs a

SYLUMFROM

Dat-Ole Burnin Mountain at Mah-back Door

Likes-tuh Makes-me

DEADTOMORROW

GREASE-YR-PALM

The

 But WHERESyrEMPATHY

Asked the Autism Specialist of the Border Patrol

MY

GRATIONMAN

The

I-says Ah-is aw-

TISS-TICK

i-Ain’t Got None-a Dat

EM-PUH-TTHEE-STUFF

SHRINKINFROMLIFE

The

Mostest we Feers we Be OUT-

NUMBEREDBYLIFE...

itself

and

The

Great

Two-Lane

Forever-Under-Construction

Multiple-Alpine-Canyon

green-from-rains

Colima

Koh-LEEEE-mah

Mafia-City

(claims the website ‘Borderland Beat’)

SKEDADDLE-BY

The

DID-YAH-KNOW

the buh-NANNAS yuh wolfs

grows right here

in blueS

plasticS

bananaS

plantationS

bagS

BREAK-YR-FAST

SHOCKEROO

????

The

Always-Downward

Roller-Coaster

Hotter-than-Ever

Winding Curvaceous

Curva-Peligrosa

(DANGERCURVE)

Take-your-shirt-off

hotter-n-hotter

Six-lane

High-speed

RACETRUCK

The

ILL LEGAL

Coastal Drug-Town

Tecoman

Tay-koh-MAHN

STAYAWAY

KEEPYRSPEED

am-

PHETAMINE-mota

IN-yr-eye

The

 Last-Taco-Shops-on-the-Highway-Before-Manzanillo-

with-Every-Last-Trashy-Trinket-Made-from-Coconuts

RACEBY

COCONUT Cups.

COCONUT Plaques.

Coconut

ZIP-YR-COATS

 Coconut

OR-che-STRATORS

Coconut-Per-

AM-bu-LATORS

Coconut

ALLEY GATORS

The

GREAT

Miles-Long Pacific Oceanside Coconut Ranch-plantation Floor-Carpet

OF

Lush High-Grass and Fallen-Coco

TREETRASH

Palm-Branches

Hurricane Dreck

with

Cattle Ambling

to

MAKEMONEY

‘Cause the Coco Nuts ain’t

SELLIN’-no-MORE

TAKE-IT-ALL

Every Coco

FREE

NOBODY

CARES

CAUSE IT’S

MEX-I-CO

MAY-she-GOH

BANG BANG

UH-OH

SOMEBODY-CARES

SHOOT-EM-OUT

The

Lokul-Yokul Bayside Lakes and Townlets before Big Beach City

SLOWERDOWN

The

Get-The-Right-Exit or You’ll Land in the Next State North

CLOVERLEAF

The

Take-the 'Zona Hotelera'

(HOTEL-ZONE)

Not

'Truck-and-ship'

SIGNFOLLOW

The

Nitty Gritty

Dust Bowl

of

Shipping

from

KOR-CHINA

they Bought the Town

with Their Own Imported English-Speaking Chi-Korean bi-

LINGUALS BABE

‘Cause the Sleepy-Ars Mex-Gov

Don’t Teach-uh duh Peeplz tuh Speakuh duh

EEN-GLITCH

so-o-o...

Take

the

PORT-SKIPPIN’

SKYPASS

or Get Shippined to

HAHMBOURG

or Hotdogged to

FRANK’SFORT

and

Swiss Cheesed

to

SING-a-POOR

SINGALONG

an’

FEEL-yr-WAY

The

Famous 270-Degree U-turn Super-fin Abstract-Dolphin Sculpture-thing

glorieta

glow-ree-A-tah

ROUNDABOUT

TRAFFICCIRCLE

 which means

You’re Almost at Jeanne’s

BACKWATER

BEACH-ie-HOUSE

The

Las-Brisas

lahs-BREE-zahs

Inner-city Bad-Beach-from-Trop-storms

Wear-tear Neighbors-Hood

ReBORN-ReSORT

conFUSE-YR-ASS

 with left-turns from the right-two-lanes

and right-turns from the left-two-lanes

ALL-AT-ONCE

Unless you Want to Wait for the

LIGHT

but Who in Trapped Tropical Paradise

Does

ANYWAY  -is-  RIGHTAWAY

The

Jeanne’s Beach Compound Electronic Door Opener

Is

LOCKED-INSIDE

and

Spanish Tile says ‘Casa Juanita’ Meaning

Jeannie Beachie Housie

Actually

FOUR HOUSIE

ONE-TWO

THREE-FOUR

 o-

LYMPIC-POOL’S

a

FIFTH-for-SOME

in Graduated Sizes Depending on your

GUEST-STATUS

but

Nobody Answers Buzzer

and

How can a Body-with-a

BROKENHIP

NOT-BE-HOME?!!

and finally
 

The

NANCY-ANSWERING

then

WHEEL-CHAIR

JEANNE-come-BACKING

from

GAM-BLING

BRIDGEPLAYING

LADYCLACKING

Les-Mis Doyennes Canadiennes Down for the Winter from

CLAMBAKE KLONDIKE

they

HELP YOU

UNPACKING

and you’re Off for

OUTDINING

JEANNE’STREAT

Every Last Thing Is

SHE’STREATING

Till the

HIPisHEALED

LIFEbeGOOD

to

YOU  TOO

STOMPALONG

.

So that’s the YESterday FORTYnine THOUSANDthree OVERlapsed CRAWLthrough YEARSgoneby BOUNCEalong WHIZpast SLOWdown EASYchoice DON’Tforget CROSSvalley OVERmountain DOWNtocoast DOWN-down-down WARMERhotter SANTAcruise STOP-to-buy KILLyourself MUCHtodo COME-from-states SAVEyrlife BOOdehoo MILESandmiles PALM-and-pine REST-from-daze LIFEgiver CORNshucker AUC-tion-yr-pants MAKE-you-cry SO-o-pretty TREEtunnel HOLD-yr-hat SKIRTabout FARfromharm BABYneck SYLUM-from DEADtomorrow GREASE-yr-palm WHERES-yr-empathy-my-miGRATIONman SHRINKfromlife outNUMBERED-by-LIFE SKEDADDLE-by DIDyaknow BREAK-yr-fast SHOCKeroo DANGERcurve RACEtruck STAYaway KEEPyrspeed RACE-on-by TAKE-it-all SHOOTemout SLOWERdown CLOverleaf HOTELzone SIGNfollow SINGalong FEELyourway ROUNDabout BEACHie-house conFUSE-your-ass ALL-at-once ANYway-is-RIGHTaway LOCKEDinside FOURhousie GUEST-status BROKENhip NOTbehome COMEbacking BRIDGEplaying LADYclacking CLAMbake KLONdike UNpacking OUTdining JEANNE’S-treat SHE’S-treating HIP-is-healed LIFEbegood

STOMPalong

DOWN-n-out

GITalong

ROUSTabout

BOOGIEboy

BLUES

And it’s something to

WAILABOUT

Hey!

Thems cats knowz how tuh livez day-own hee-uh!!!

SUMZ-TIMEZ .

sun setting over Manzanillo Bay

seen from Pacific coast beach house of the Dr.'s friend Jeanne Niederlitz

in Las Brisas neighborhood
beach-and-port city of Manzanillo
state of Colima, Mexico