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The Table (La Mesa)
The table, la mesa, all geometry contained within her plane, she wobbles slightly, one leg missing its glider, or perhaps it is just worn, or cut slightly shorter than the others, a charming albeit irritating flaw. A grommet pierces her surface tunneling from above to below, two universes unaware of each other, this table who…
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Black Heart of a Mama’s Boy
There is no heart blacker than that of a frightened mama’s boy…I buried him alive…deep, deep in the rough open grave of my own black heart…
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American Idol American Gun
The United States has 270 million guns and had 90 mass shooters from 1966 to 2012. [During that same period], no other country has [had] more than 46 million guns or 18 mass shooters.– The New York Times, Nov. 7, 2017 And they have built the high places of Tophet…to burn their sons and their…
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The Beloved Infidel
The last time my father and I argued politics he told me I was lost. You’ll never learn, he said, pointing his cane at my chest, then hobbled off to his room. Now he rarely leaves it, nodding out in his chair, cane at his feet, talk radio softly droning endless litanies against the world,…
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Rice Stadium, Pelham Bay Park
The bleachers crumble, St. Lannes’ “American Boy” is gone, only his feet left on the pedestal, his empty temple a haven for pigeons and ghosts. Once upon a time presiding over the games of our youth, then giving sanctuary to junkie waifs selling virginity beneath stone legs, he had become unsafe. The City will raze…
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Mambo No. 1: El Festival de la Calle Ocho, Little Havana, Miami
On the road on businessmy nights my ownI wade into the streamof bare chested boysbikini topped girls
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