Poems

Sometimes I think it’s the end of the world

Sometimes I think it’s the end of the world
and while we’re waiting for the decision
on who’ll be the one chosen
to get into paradise, and who won’t
my friend, super impatiently, says to me:
– Leo, I can’t take it anymore.
 
All this blah-blah
about truth and lies, what’s good and bad
I’m just so sick of it, I can’t take it anymore.
(“But Rafa…”)
 
Let’s go on a bender, Leo
and make love, and then another bender
and let’s watch TV lying in bed.
Let’s watch
King Kong’s infinite sadness
as he falls from the highest tower
to the foot of a cliff, and let’s make love
and go on another bender and another, and make love…
Like a beautiful 19-year-old Catullus
who’s got no idea who Catullus is
and… who cares anyway?