Words

Words

The incidental whore,

with The Accidental Tourist.

The view from here

in A Room with a View.

Once a thief, always a thief?

Once a Lady, always a Lady!

Whore. 

A word that describes a youthful challenge.

But, now what?

View.  I took down the windows last March,

on the wake of my fifty ninth birthday.

Sixty.

Accidental names for numbers, words

with windows, views reaching out

and stepping on proverbs.

When I’m dead if you call me a whore

I’ll come back and shake your bed,

make you think it’s an earthquake,

hijo’e puta, ja-ja!

©   Sergio A. Ortiz May 17, 2010