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Lament for Mrs. Mones

Lament for Mrs. Mones Ví CTOR R O d R íg UE z Núñ E z for Roberto Méndez Beneath the only red poplar gro wing in Hart Island’s indigent cemet ery Rita Serrano tremb les In her fine hands that have made more than one man h appy she crushes the evening pa per everyone has read in New York Ci ty Conrado Mones of Cuban orig in committed suicide by entering the bear c age in Central Park Z oo She is not dressed in blac k as those from Artemisa—in her place—wou ld be She wears tight blue je ans white sweater and tennis s hoes like the picture on the front p age Conrado Mones —29 years old— was not crazy or homeless or crimin al He was an unemploye d biology profess or e cr Th ude autumn of ’82 envelops her shakes her almost undress es her so she won’t forget the w ords her husband sa id to the bear keep er It’s always the sa me I have no futur e We need to get closer to the anim als 118 I at least try to show I love t hem Beneath the only red http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Manoa University of Hawai'I Press

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Ví CTOR R O d R íg UE z Núñ E z for Roberto Méndez Beneath the only red poplar gro wing in Hart Island’s indigent cemet ery Rita Serrano tremb les In her fine hands that have made more than one man h appy she crushes the evening pa per everyone has read in New York Ci ty Conrado Mones of Cuban orig in committed suicide by entering the bear c age in Central Park Z oo She is not dressed in blac k as those from Artemisa—in her place—wou ld be She wears tight blue je ans white sweater and tennis s hoes like the picture on the front p age Conrado Mones —29 years old— was not crazy or homeless or crimin al He was an unemploye d biology profess or e cr Th ude autumn of ’82 envelops her shakes her almost undress es her so she won’t forget the w ords her husband sa id to the bear keep er It’s always the sa me I have no futur e We need to get closer to the anim als 118 I at least try to show I love t hem Beneath the only red

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Manoa – University of Hawai'I Press

Published: Dec 18, 2019

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