My Wicked Wicked Ways: Poems by Sandra Cisneros

Author:Sandra Cisneros
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Literary, To Read, Poetry, Fiction
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2015-04-28T00:00:00+00:00

Beautiful Man — France

I saw a beautiful man today

at the café.

Very beautiful.

But I can’t see

without my glasses.

So I ask the woman next to me.

Yup, she says, he’s beautiful.

But I don’t believe her

and go to see for myself.

She’s right.

He is.

Do you speak English?

I say to the beautiful man.

A little, the beautiful man says to me.

You are beautiful, I say,

No two ways about it.

He says beautifully, Merci.

Postcard to the Lace Man—The Old Market, Antibes

To tell the truth,

I can’t remember your name.

It’s those Catalán eyes

I can’t let go of.

That and the memory

of an inky tea

sweetened with orange water,

the sticky perfume

of a cigarette

from Persia,

those photos of Tangiers.

I forgot to tell you.

I have a great respect

for wives.

Especially yours.

Au revoir, mon ami.

C’est la vie.

That afternoon

at the Musée Picasso—

a pretty memory and enough

for me.

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