Ismael Garay
Becoming Andy Warhol

Counting bus stops in a dream–
Dream weaver, shake off the weary night,
Dionysus is drowning in the fragile words
of love, in the desire to wear the water mask
of the gods, the rivers becoming echoes
in the womb of your indifference.

Poems make liars of us all, the songs
won’t make the saints repent. Music men,
give up your limp guitars, surrender the melodies
that will not bend the wildflowers towards the sun,
that will not bend the tiny hour–
The muse is more unfaithful than the moon.

The paralysis that hinders our flight,
clouds becoming boundaries defining
the limitations of sky–

The earth is my spirit,
innocense becomes infinite
within the earth's flesh.