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One Last Mexican Moment

William Doreski

The hot glare stifles conversation.
A tortilla droops from a plate.
As we nod over margaritas
traffic sizzles a few yards away,
coughing up gusts of monoxide.

You look flowery in that dress,
a rhetorical violet print,
but you’re in your objective mood.
Obsessed with your newest infant,
the first baby in history
who doesn’t resemble Churchill,
you’re giddy with the hangover
of creation, which mothers suffer
as gladly as famous war wounds.

The child looks too solemn to share
your elation, but a book of cats
with fluff-trimmed cardboard cover
distracts by encouraging a chew.
We’ve never met in the presence
of such a determined witness,
summer heat bleeding through us
in a dozen shades of beige.

Usually we feint like kittens
for a while, then chastely embrace
so Main Street can see how distant
we remain in public. But the glare
discourage those flirty glances
we like to indulge when tired
of pondering oil spills, recessions,
and ecological disasters
brimming in the Arctic tundra.

Your child looks bored. Time to return
to our lives, so we down
the dregs and place a napkin
on that last tortilla, shrouding it
from the buzzing of wasps and flies.

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