This Cuban Is Coming Out Of The Closet
Stop the embargo.
My mother is writing me off.
My old man is doing a Linda Blair in his grave.
I am an American sympathizer.
I relate to my lost Atlantis citizens;
Hanging on to the embargo anchor.
The only fist left to stick up Fidel's ass.
But Fidel likes it that way.
Whenever we get the chance
don't we call him Maricon?
I haven't lost anything
in el culo del perro.
Those left behind
sniff it every day.
Stop the embargo.
They will finally be able
to buy air freshener.
Richard Brautigan Excuse # 2 - To Make Love
La lluvia falls.
Mi amante reads me Brautigan.
I read him Neruda
in Spanish.
I sometimes stop
to translate
a word I want him
to remember.
Have him repeat
in moments such
as these.
Sombreros fall upon swaying pelvis.
Nubes perfumadas
salen del cuarto.
Doesn't matter
what poem is read.
It rains.
Charles Manson Rides A Pink Coupe de Ville
Manson rides
a pink
Coupe de Ville
past my windows
on his way
to pick up
welfare.
I wake up.
Just in time
before he
cashes
the check
from a girl
with half moons
drawn on red
3 inch
plastic nails.
Makes
you wonder
how she
ever wipes
any crevice.
If you die
in your dreams
you are dead
for real.
I saw this theory
introduced on TV.
Death
lives
in a jail cell.
Grows gray hairs
from a snarled beard.
Writes tasteless poetry.
Jurisdiction is his
his Bitch.
Of course it would
be easier to
send him off
to the gas chamber.
Instead, He rides
a pink Coupe de Ville
on his way to cash in.
How to turn a First World Country into a Third World Country
Practice law. Create black and white propaganda in English 101.
Attack Moncada Barracks. Have yourself captured, imprisoned.
Exile yourself in Mexico and the United States. Return home.
Lead armed attacks against the government. Live in La Sierra mountains
with 800 of your peers. Let your face grow, wear fatigues, gather grenades.
Have your sweat smell of tobacco. Force the dictator, a so called President
into exile. Declare yourself an atheist. Send Jesuit priests that educated
you in Belen to hell. Curse La Virgen de la Caridad for being the witness
that remembers you baptized your children in the Sacred Heart.
Disclaim the rumor you are a Communist. Have the United States
declare you as the new government. Make friends with Russia.
Have Kennedy run a Cold Sweat. Bury missiles in sandy beaches.
Have anyone that could have been more powerful than you,
richer than you, stronger than you, leave.
Make all the poor, despondent, ignorant, stay. Call it a Revolution.
Call it rum without Coca-Cola. Call it no longer a Cuba Libre.
