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    “Of Trips, Of Fires,” by Edgar Rincón Luna, Translated by Toshiya Kamei

    May 23, 2019 /
    Of Trips, Of Fires
    “Only strangers travel owning everything
    I have nowhere to go”
    Leonard Cohen

    I drink a cup of coffee

    you drink a cup of fire
    behind our eyelids
    two tears hit like rain
    old photos go through the dust
    a cemetery of ashes
    a patio filled with our old cadavers

    have we really built this wasteland for us?
    is the tattoo of sand on the skin ours?

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