He would quote Garcia Lorca to shopkeepers
Engage salesmen or waiters with a sharp
Interested
Invested
Wit
We were buying shoes in Mexico City
We noticed a plaque
That this was the very spot
Cortes met Moctezuma
Which launched another political discourse
Gathered a small crowd
Until we remembered the shoes we were
Supposed to be buying
Were theoretical
Not yet existential
At 5
In the afternoon
David Trudel © 2012
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“theoretical/Not yet existential/At 5/In the afternoon” is brilliant–love this.
Thanks Susan. “A los cinco de la tarde” is of course the opening line of Garcia Lorca’s best known poem.