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Burn and exhale

It’s a cheap afternoon

with lazy stray cats,

a burning breeze

and incoherent

Mexican music.

I drink the mosquitoes

and burn my fingers

on the cigar nub.

I close my eyes

to meditate.

There is no sky

to consider the rain

and my suicide

with extra

blood spatter,

minus the note.

I open my eyes

and relight my cigar,

burn my fingers again

and exhale.

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jorge-antonio-lopez

American

Published: Jan 18, 2010
LinesWords: 2065

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