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...

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