“Hooray for the Illogical”
— Amy Uyematsu, from That Blue Trickster Time
“Taped to the wall of my cell are 47 pictures…”
— Etheridge Knight, from “The Idea of Ancestry”
“Something like chocolate egg clair.” What is Donut Land? You must decipher these 15 midnight moments, notes, conversations. Do not look for meaning, Do not look.
1.
Here. With Frank Wilma. We always rotate
to Donut Land at about 11:30 pm after all our doings
in the Mission District. In particular, poetrylandia.
“I’ll take a Bear Claw,” I say. Frank says he’ll take
something like a Chocolate Egg Clair. Just like him
to want an Egg Claire. It’s got every flavor in the world.
Orale, carnal, pásame un chunk, I say. Creamy and Eggy.
We keep on rappin’ in Spanglish. Whatever it is.
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