{"id":713,"date":"2010-01-02T00:19:42","date_gmt":"2010-01-02T05:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fullofcrow.com\/poetry\/?p=713"},"modified":"2010-01-02T00:19:42","modified_gmt":"2010-01-02T05:19:42","slug":"sergio-ortiz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fullofcrow.com\/poetry\/2010\/01\/sergio-ortiz\/","title":{"rendered":"Sergio Ortiz"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bandit Nights <\/strong><\/p>\n

I am tired
\nof this monotonous,
\nsedentary afternoon
\nin which long-faced gentlemen
\nvociferate their ignorance
\nof the Afghan war.<\/p>\n

Dazed afternoon
\nunder the scorching sun
\nwatching a mangy dog
\nget up off the floor
\nunconcerned with the child
\nwho just got shot
\nby its side.<\/p>\n

I want to emigrate,
\nfind nights sharpened by
\nthe owl\u2019s eye,
\nnights full of bandits
\nand consumptive whores.
\nI want to crumple up
\nlike the wasp\u2019s neurosis
\non my bed.
\nOh, outlet city,
\nhow is it that my verses
\nare born in this ferocious
\nvillage? What empty lines
\ndid I mistake for an oasis,
\ndark-dense people
\nfull of shady passions?<\/p>\n

Progress<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kill a tree,
\nun-frame the stars.<\/p>\n

We are the grotesque
\nsetting of unanswered
\nquestions whose useless
\nvoice is distorted by
\nthe sterile wind.
\nAnd the dust continues
\nto pile up.<\/p>\n

Pity people who break
\nover nothing.
\nTheir moon is as white
\nas an owl\u2019s blind eye.<\/p>\n

In an Hour<\/strong><\/p>\n

Like everything that finds me,
\ndamned spring,
\nyou\u2019ve set a price
\non blooms of bugambilias
\naround the periphery
\nof my brow.
\nAnd here I am drawing on
\nconclusions.
\nWho cares if love comes
\nand goes in an hour?
\nGoddamned lying spring,
\nallow me to kiss you
\nas if a kiss were more
\nthan just a kiss.<\/p>\n


\nIdem<\/strong><\/p>\n

I see him as a dead tree
\ncovered with clematis and ferns.
\nHe laughs like an old shoemaker
\nentangled in own his shoestrings.
\nNothing removes the moisture
\nin his eyes.\u00a0 He\u2019s a prairie
\nlet loose on the street.
\nWe are not the same,
\nyet we are.<\/p>\n

Upon Receiving a Rejection Notice<\/strong><\/p>\n

Envy is the Lemonade
\nCountess, small cutesy
\nrunaround with that oh, really,
\nyes-yes expression on her face
\naristocrat macaques are
\nso fond of.<\/p>\n

\u2014Yes, Monsieur,
\nwe love your rigadoon dance.
\nYour elegant word of the day,
\nvolupt\u00e9 .\u00a0 But in our presence,
\nplease, don\u2019t mention frogs.
\nThey multiply in the mirrors
\nat the king\u2019s court.<\/p>\n

Sergio Ortiz has a B.A. in English from Inter-American University, and a M.A. in philosophy from World University.\u00a0He has work forthcoming in Autumn Sky Poetry, The Smoking Poet, The Acentos Review, and Poesia<\/em>. He lives in San Juan, Puerto Rico.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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