My gone mother on Mars
Searching for signs of life
Searching for her lungs
She has 1950s curlers in her hair
Smoking 2-3 cigarettes
Mom is right and she is wrong
Lonely in her skin
She dances on her peg leg
Spins on the never-healing stump
Her arm rises in the air
It's just my funny brain tumor
She says
In a crater she finds remnants of Yiddish
Fragments of a Russian lullaby
Her hands are bigger than mine
Knuckles knobbier
She visits me in Mexico, in Cuba
To keep me from floating away
She holds my foot
Martian booby traps everywhere
She has only six months to live
forever
How will she survive her life
On the Red White and Blue Planet?
-- New York, March 28, 2011
The cast of characters
“The cast of characters includes a Tyrannosaurus Rex, a cheerleading peanut and a banana.” – Cartoon Network press release about the debut of The Amazing World of Gumball, March 17, 2011
For the life of me
Here I stand
Here I stand
Avenue of the Americas
Central Park South
Looking up
At San Martin's statue
Libertador de Argentina, Chile y Peru
At San Martin's statue
Libertador de Argentina, Chile y Peru
The cast of characters
Surely I am the only one in the world
Who at 10:15 in the morning
On this very day
Standing in San Martin’s shadow
Is taken into custody
By this joyful recollection:
Street musicians in Buenos Aires
In their 70s, maybe older
Worse for wear, hungover and drenched
In the Plaza de Mayo
In the Plaza de Mayo
The happiest and freest 4 humans alive
I walk into the park
I embrace
One by one
The Tyrannosaurus Rex
The cheerleading peanut
And the banana
-- New York, March 23, 2011
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