Christopher Rey Pérez
plátanos con bananas
Ruby Robinson
Christopher Rey Pérez
Christopher Rey Pérez is the author of gauguin's notebook (&NOW Books). Currently, he lives in the West Bank of Palestine, where he is a lecturer at al-Quds Bard Honors College of Arts & Sciences. He is from the Rio Grande Valley of Texas.
Christopher Rey Pérez
plátanos con bananas
it was 17:52 of sitting alone in the espacio called the space noticing trees in representation of there was in it banana trees and monkeies too and a rollercoasters worth for pinche diós mío
it was 17:53 and metal vines green smoothies and frozen yogurts
it was 17:54 eventually and at 17:55 I having to slather over this habitat I was working into at
17:56 with my peg leg hopping along gently my favorite hat wrapped on bonnet-style was fashion
it was 17:57 and did a gulp
because then it 18:00 and because being here in the armor of me the time was coming to change altitudes
it was 18:02
it was 18:03
it was 18:04
then it 18:08 and I out of vitamins all I had was a nails clipper I emanated a little bit counting hormones
it was july 15 and had released me when tunneled through the green grass the work yonder is bad today corn production
down 16 and the oil continues to do export and we not have facilities to process it and inflation being at 3.8 (“numbers”) and 25 more die today in (“numbers”) where it was the repetition of july 15
it was 18:13 and thinking about all that at once and was doing some right then then me because it getting so screwed in to
18:20 i mean what is this thinking about sanctuary and two I shan’t suck off a courtier’s finger whence the gold buttons gather milks for their worried solar plexus
it was 18:21 and groping in the air conditioned air I couldn’t believe they conditioning it
it was 18:23 and feeling like eating a nopalitos or two and mouthing life is langouge pain is immersive and grabbing my scant appendages
thinking of the trucking to the agua caravan go-ers howls and sigh paddle flimsy then enumerating the benefits to this country-
hole and in full effect nada
it was 18:25 to beginning to feel more freedom and great ancient rome (ha!) with pure nervous system so I took
off my bonnet and got in with the thinking “kingdom of death” “penis of the colonies” “liturgical banana trees” one syllable after next in the way of the strong poems
it was 18:29 and thick anxious about the territory I in as happened which was and happening it for the bananas or their propagators and
it was 18:30 then who would peel them?
it was 18:31 and I was not alone I married to
the bananas and deep analysis and feeling eruptioned inside in different scales
at 18:32 in this marred x pompous coughing up blood and green and blue and palming it into my culottes clockwise
it was still 18:32 and stopped up like a tube of old caulking unsanctimoniously
then it 18:35 which meant had to most abled hurry of all
it was 18:36 and my racial features from bird’s eye
so was 18:40 and deciding to lie instigated in the air conditioned super air and took a chewing vitamin found wrapped in my napkins then admitting obliged then experiencing a pimple burgeoning
because it became 18:45 as the detention system has been rapidly expanded, a greater share of detainees have been held at private facilities run for profit. Today, nearly 50% of immigration
bed spaces are in private facilities and private companies own and manage many of the prisons to of and more and
so on at 18:46 there was plebes in the long corridors in commerce upon checking the time it was darktime then realizing articulating it all wrong it was 18:46 it was tiempo negro there was glamour shots on the wall with presidents and looking down and seeing my blood
dried on the floor and rafters up top and some flags hanging down for chingado sake mijo muchos of them forming 4 isosceles traignels side by side and moving northwest because of
the air conditions then the air conditions all of a freezing probably to destroy bacteria so the
noble flags noble still and quiet then
the air conditions going god back up again
it was 18:52 my lips really chapped
it was 18:53 and checking the time again ¿how I leave here
the passers in the entirely
it was 18:54 and if they only told me I am a ordained cowboy and if I just lie here and keep to ambulate then smiling ok
it was 18:55 and you finished to learn to smile and got on the edge of the raw eroticism I say
but it turn 19:00 like that in the black out and with dead bodies of going back to again the desert or in more specify way I was inside of all the throng with zero shade in them and hurt drone and destroyed water jugs only for exacerbate and gutted dehydrating and burned skin crispy and eunuchs of all ages in a chicken giant coop with saliva before I thinking ¿how is this patrolling where is the peoples my students the lover and hers lover and each name what are like the homes in their lives
is the food delicious in its original tongue but no bodies was noticing and having to return toward this narrator again iced-up
it was 19:01 already hijolé the iron buzzard going off
then and hey come back and traveling into one’s own time wanting to clips my nails and erase the concursions from the sodden eyes
it was 19:02 you see it
it was quickly 19:02 and wanting to focus on this banana tree in the middle of the façade momentous so I
focusing on the banana tree but dead bodies on
at 19:03 a whole itemized of dead bodies gacho dead and feeling like was walking on the flinty moon then ribcage contracting and after that salacious air conditioning then the brunt of our labors
it was 19:04 and boy in his overalls coming out of shop to wash windows and reaching into his jacket and took out a sandgüich immune to the carnivorous
it was 19:05 and watching him with tastee sandgüich in his left hand while wiping windows cleaned with his right then switched put down rag and switching to his right to spray with his left before switching it to his sandgüich left again
exactly at 19:06 and whispering into the paranoid he might be addressing me then listening more closer to see if mexico then fingernails inching before feeling relieved he singing in the worker’s way
it went “como que eres falsa / como calabaza / cualquiera
te pica / y tú al rato te rajas”
yeah it was 19:07 and a real song it was the arolladora banda
el limón I privy to
then it was 19:09 I saw a corpse coming to the surface
at 19:10 I saw a diabolical mirror shed a tear
then it was 19:11 the boy’s boss come out and hurry up you’re not fucking working enough this old man fat returned to the store and some loud children—milagros—exiting the store and two women holding hands entered the store then a family with a chihuahua passing by and it wanting to enter the store but the father of the family say no