Pre-Capitalist Duende Outbounds Archie: Dependendant Kontent?
Word count: 176
Paragraphs: 24
“el sol brillante
se apaga
de repente
y de repente
me arrepiento”
what the Bard spat forth, sublimates
The Michoacan “profe”
As hereto unknown levels of
Paranoic
Mexi-global
Minstrelsy
Take firm hold of The Old Literary Quartet
(in the bar)
they interrupt one another
in jaunty- rhythms-
(rough translation)
“ill what would be me will-pile – file – sing”
“stuff up what would be blind-fuck there-spare,
me, hope’s hope”
“I the devil what would more design
trans-death, than trans-life”
“call in the faith box—that would be premise
dream-lense, be-shattered,
shysyhtemic
shubsherviemsh”
And so the Declamatory session ends.
Bottles are cleared from the table.
And a last fleur
De malaise globale
Is plucked
“Rue the monograph!
But not the ineluctable practice
Young man”
Symbolism’s
Satellite
Debris
Rodrigo Toscano is a poet and essayist based in New Orleans. He is the author of ten books of poetry, including his upcoming new book, The Charm & The Dread.