Adobo Criollo Sergio Antonio Ortiz Rivera

           I have been trying to go into the forums at Poets.org for a month now.  And I keep getting a message that says the discussion forums are down for maintenance.  And I ask myself, how can discussion forums at The Academy be down for maintenance for so long?  Or is it that I have been band?  I can't imagine why?  The only things I have posted there were a few poems during the NaPoWriMo.  Most of those poems have already been accepted for publication.  I am hurt.  I thought these people were my friends, at least I thought some of them were my friends.              The truth is that certain things should never happen a The Academy, and that if I sound like a small child having a tantrum it is only because I miss posting at The Academy.  I mean, it was the first place that anyone gave me the time of day, why shouldn't I miss it?   I miss it with all my heart. to be continued......................................

Nada que Ver Me hablas como si me conocieras, como si acabase de bajarme de tu cama desnudo, como si el desayuno — las tostadas y el café, me impresionaran.  Escultor de cuerpos remachados en bronce, cuerpos abandonados a su suerte en el piso de tu estudio — no te conozco y alternando mis ojos entre la escritura y la lectura rebusco la razón de tu osadía — hablarme como si me conocieras.  Hay distancias abismales, borracheras secas.  Me engalano con lo que yo quiera, túnica, gabán, traje de novia.  Total, no soy tu escultura, ni respondo a los caprichos de cualquiera. ©   Sergio A. Ortiz, June 1, 2010