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Wow, druglords all over S. A. That is so terrible. They are destroying Mexico. Thank you for the information about Hermes. I don't rhyme but this is a form poem. Thank you Sylvia.
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Antonio is fictional Sylvia so please don't cry. It just happens so much that I had to write something about it. Hermes? that is another forum. I've never posted in it, never read there either. Should I post this there?
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There were a couple of places that made me stumble. It was the word choice. But after looking them up and translating them into Spanish I realize why you've chosen them. Yes, they are new ways of saying things, fresh descriptions. I like the poem, but do agree with some of Larry's suggestions.
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The uninvited man at the birthday party was from the secret police. Over the next few weeks many of the young men at the party had to ask for asylum in other countries out of fear they would be executed Sylvia. This is a true story.
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The Birthday Party
Gambia. Alhaji, twenty-one and gay, had been planning his birthday for months. The guest list carefully locked away; there was that real threat of decapitation to consider. However, he could no longer find peace by avoiding life.
how old is need, how knotted are the corridors of loneliness? Imam, there is no angel with an orange by my bed
His friends gathered by the poolside, each with his past shut in him like the leaves of a book, eyeing the uninvited guest snapping photographs.
freedom is a fire that runs like a staircase up then down— my lover's lips the color of soft-skin mangoes