Ocho Prosposiciones by ron ostrander

Ocho Prosposiciones
(Puerto Vallarta - Febrero 2017)
 
clap politely … no matter what
 
#1 – Valentines For Sale
 
dead                                         read
her metaphors shrivel          with feeling they do not
our skin                                   deserve
 

#2 – Gunsmoke
 
every sneeze and cough cuts him
from California psychotherapy
at once Christian and Buddhist
he winces, pauses, begins again, believes
it is wrong to believe      after all
this is being recorded      and soon
shame and guilt will carry us away
to the pain of another existence
 
#3 – Stella By Starlight
 
what is it that began
with a bicycle and a beer
in an Old South stream
of consciousness      laid out
on a hood      seduction
seduced      in two parts?
 
#4 – All About Mark
 
“do I sound affected?” he asked
yet she stayed with him anyway
for two years      then left with
“I just wanted you to know
you have no imagination”
 
#5 – Liza
 
why should we care
about the Minellis
and other stars wasted
on the night?
 
#6 – More Valentines
 
magic in hoarfrost
on laden pines
borrowed and blue and
virgin white in Leon
where retired flesh hangs
on this flat-black stage
down the road
from memory
 
#7 – Old Bones
 
thank you
Princess Yehyah
for these five minutes
 
#8 – An Invitation
 
visite
Avion Cazahuracanes
y Playa Mito
he has a little plan
set out with
alternate facts taped
to a plastic bottle
of Iron 60