Aztec Moon Farmacie
I hear a harmonium in your head seeping into our Super 16 mm dreams like, together in isolation or rather trying to get a message to you on the other side of Montauk You were never there & I was never here You’re just a baam claat man I’m gonna go down into the subway and catch the first train that crashes into the sun I’ve been holding my breath for half my life lurching towards your dark pantomime in the morning the candle shatters and I know it must be time to go I can feel the stars start to cross all the way from the other side of Montauk You were a house of cards & I was the gasoline we’ve got charisma to burn I’m gonna go down into the subway and catch the first train that crashes into the sun We’re always making other arrangements when did we get so used to hard times
Variations of Virginia
History is the first version of the future
and wasn’t it Cervantes who said- wait, or was it Burroughs-
either way, the present is quite irrelevant
it’s really winner take all
and yes, this will be on the Final
They don’t know
how fast time goes
Back in my University days
there were quite a lot of Fellows who used to say-
so much can go down between Christmas and New Year’s Day
either way, the presents are irrelevant
when it’s winner take all
They don’t know
how fast time can slow
One can be a crowd when the anonymous becomes Universal
it reminds me of when Tartuffe got lost in the glitch
ah, the atrocities of the flesh
most of the time the present is out of context
and don’t the winner take it all
They just don’t know
how slow time can flow
Fortune Cookies
One cannot sail in
two boats at the same time
Sometimes in life
we must hedge our bets
Bio: Christian Garduno’s work can be read in over 100 literary magazines. He’s the recipient of the 2019 national Willie Morris Award for Southern Poetry, a Finalist in the 2020-2021 Tennessee Williams & New Orleans Writing Contest, and a Finalist in the 2021 Julia Darling Memorial Poetry Prize. He lives and writes along the South Texas coast with his wonderful wife Nahemie and young son Dylan.
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