He says slow down and mouths words like mother and harder. He says sand is a form of torture for children. He claims he is a space invader but to my ears it sounds like I\u2019m a masturbator. We make toe drawings to remember the carved turkey we will never eat.<\/p>\n
*<\/p>\n
He is bingo tough.
\nHe is wanted by the law.
\nHe is California.
\nHe is the sexiest lizard I\u2019ve seen in my whole life.
\nHe is everything from Dizrythmia onwards.
\nHe is brie.
\nHe is hands down the star of her (or his) own debut.
\nHe is licensed in North & South Carolina.
\nHe is a Muppet.
\nHe is Nordic sex.
\nHe is standing in front of a small orchestra.
\nHe is sketching in a special room with a big table and chairs.
\nHe is certainly not Martina Navratilova.<\/p>\n
*<\/p>\n
I love wild boars and Bruce Springsteen. I love plausibility and deniability. I should be writing about Meta but I\u2019m tired of death and destruction. I want to move to Sodom with Charo. I am desperate for space.<\/p>\n
*<\/p>\n
He says: I\u2019m afraid of suspension bridges and needles too. I say fine. He says sorry. I fold his hands.<\/p>\n
*<\/p>\n
I\u2019m tired of geese and the cherished treasures of the Holy See. I\u2019m tired of elegant metaphors for snow, e.g. tiny geese fluttering in the wind. What\u2019s the possibility of geese fluttering? Of snow in outer space? Of geese used as weapons of mass destruction? I\u2019m tired of random fires and pebbles in my shoes. I\u2019m not bulletproof and neither is he.<\/p>\n
*<\/p>\n
I won\u2019t tell you how I feel except for this fact: kerosene.<\/p>\n
*<\/p>\n
Merlot wine reminds me the guy who served me liquor when I was seventeen, who is the same guy who dies at the end of this story, who is also like the cat who dies at the end of Cats<\/em>, without my permission. It\u2019s funny how the names of the dead go with them. What\u2019s the sign for memory? I almost wrote sing for memory. Warblers love irony. I can’t remember his fucking name.<\/p>\n *<\/p>\n Say something, he says. I say chicken.<\/p>\n Neil de la Flor’s<\/strong> publications include Almost Dorothy<\/em> (Marsh Hawk Press, 2010), winner of the Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize, Facial Geometry <\/em>(NeoPepper Press, 2006), co-authored with Maureen Seaton and Kristine Snodgrass, and Sinead O’Connor and her Coat of a Thousand Bluebirds <\/em>(Firewheel Editions, forthcoming 2011), co-authored with Maureen Seaton and winner of the Sentence Book Award. His work, both solo and collaborative, has appeared in Hayden\u2019s Ferry Review, Barrow Street, Pank, Prairie Schooner, Indiana Review, Hobart Pulp<\/em>, among other journals. He can be reached at www.neildelaflor.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" He says slow down and mouths words like mother and harder. He says sand is a form of torture for children. He claims he is a space invader but to my ears it sounds like I\u2019m a masturbator. We make<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[21954],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/384"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1180,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions\/1180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}