Friday, January 12, 2018

Carlos 2/52

I stuck an ocean between me and my friends the funeral went on without me I guess because we can't go back in time and you're dead I blew the dust off my guitar  I went skateboarding  I drank wine at the bottom of a stairwell I watched videos of people getting punched in the nuts I started growing my hair out again I did the best I could to live like we used to
those furious summers of laughter
I got an email from you it said,

    Hi Carlos, This is           s mom,            






                                                                                   Im not sure if you  know, 

but            died on                      
If you already knew 
                                           Im sorry                        
.
and I didn't know what to do but keep on going with the audacity
of thanking the missing
for reminding us of all the wild possibility we are captains of

3 comments:

  1. There you go, b. Feels like you're not holding back -- feels like you're just writing. And you can feel the sentiment here. Like this a lot.

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  2. This is very powerful, and yet, I agree with what Max said: it feels like it was just written. The effort is invisible.

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    1. Which is NOT to say that I don't think it took effort.

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