Arawaks

I caught my youth in your teeth, you shattered across my window screen into a pile of blood diamonds. We had fun playing pinball, lights and bells in your eyes while I smoked my last cigarette. You paused the ball with a bumper and said my teeth will be grey in twenty years and I begged to differ that they would be yellow and ashen from red wine. How could you sit naked on hotel bed spreads? She’d say why must everything be a critique of the present moment? Isn’t that.. and she’d interrupt me with a stare. Her eyes go white when she moves things with her mind, things float around like balloons but she couldn’t quite make them settle where she wanted and they broke on the carpeting if they were fragile. Remember Hannah Höch, that is how I see people sometimes. Who is Mimesis? He said you were but I disagreed. Know what Columbus wrote after he met the Arawaks? “With fifty men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want.”. But now they can do that with paper by making it green and worthless. She said about the 1930’s Depression that the decadence of wealthy people was what was devastating. But he said it was a hardship to live without money. She responded with you get accustomed to it. And he wanted the last word saying, then you die.