I will be Your Main Man...

¡Hola! Everybody...
Here's hoping everyone is enjoying the holidays. When you get a chance, check out one of my Christmas stories over at the online magazine, Subversify (click here). I will be spending time with mother dear and my sister today.

Today is Saturday which usually means the aesthetic here at the [un]Common sense Blog...

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Nows [no. 28]


I will be your main man
if you will be my leading lady.

The curtain will part
to reveal a shower,
rehearsal for the opening
of our tiny cabaret.

I will be a thief,
a Pirate,
a Rogue,
wearing only my sword
and a blue bandana
around my neck.

You'll enter exploding.
Sexing your way
into my improvised tent
wearing only your black beret
and those bad-assed boots.

Never a game.
This is not a fantasy.
This is truth.

We will act out
who we really are.
And reach back in time
to what we must
once had been.

In the corner of my past...

Yesterdays [no. 3]

A case of Bacardi for the crazy ladies
in the corner of my past,
those hectic, horny days
of yesterday!

They beckon me back
to my forgotten madnesses,
those chest-pounding blackouts
that have grown into story time delights.

Sure, they often left before dawn
to test my memory
with a perfumed and pummeled pillow.

And they sprayed me with
cans of habichuelas
broken bottles,
ashtrays,
and all their sadnesses...

to leave me forever bruised and bleeding.

But they cared, these crazy ladies,

at least as much as they could…

So let’s hear it for las locas
Who gave these hilarious crimes to me
as evidence that I once lived.

They are the only poor souls I still know
who can tell me what I used to be...

and why.

-- Edward-Yemíl Rosario ©