Michael Internicola - September 2007
 

THE SUN IS MINE

drought and famine exist
and the money is tight and
kindergarten teachers, movers
and fag hags all have the
worst job in the world.
not my kind of people.
i have a stripper girlfriend named evita
with no common sense. she lives
in the bronx and likes the mohawk
her mother gave me. her ex harasses
her sometimes and I’m sure
he’d like to kill me. she has
earings like hula hoops, brown eyes
like a puppy dog and hair like slash.
women like this get a man in trouble.
she says I don’t want to kiss her because
i don’t want to like her. i’m like
the hooker come to think of it
but I never thought things that way.
i just had dorito breath. The smell
of rain is coming. katherine
hepburn is missing and the corner
store is out of my brand of cigarettes.
the legend shrinks across the
autumn moon but the sun is mine.

Michael Internicola is the author of four novels, KISS ME BABY SUNFLOWERS!,CHAZ, ALL OUR SKIES ARE BLUE and AS RIGHT AS RAIN. His work has appeared in Thieves Jargon, Zygote In My Coffee, Smokebox and many other national magazines. He holds a B.A. in English from Canisius College. He lives in Key West, Florida.