Tuesday, 14 June 2022

Happy birthday, Che Guevara

 Sorry, sir, but only the left brake is on

    "'Apologies for the convenience'"

Only left turns are available,

Meaning hot food items have to travel in the left hand,

The right shoulder occupied by those flies that make

The journey, unlike those who wiped

Off the face to

Make me recall when

Exactly

It was, the first time I

Decided not to kill the spider, but escort it outside,

And isn't killing flies by cycling into them

Also killing spiders?


By continuing to exist I am

Putting myself, Bolivia, Guinea-Bissau, Cuba, Angola,

Argenina, here, others, at risk of

More poetry

Specifically

By me

And,

Precisely,

It's the risk of writing three ideas at once and

The risk of revealing the limitations of each idea,

With every connection cloaked in

A lack of the real connection required for a story

Like Che's,

Or the last time I bought hot food items on the way home,

Dropping a can of ginger beer painfully slowly against the inside of the Porter's fridge door,

Exploding it, spraying it, arching it

Precisely

Onto the face of the young radical behind the counter.

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