A poem by Juan Pablo Dardón Pereira
A poem by Juan Pablo Dardón Pereira, a Guatemalan writer. English translation by Alexander Socop: YOUR BEAUTY IS HARDCORE POP a super accident tidal wave, flood earthquake, tsunami a head-on bus crash challenger rostropovich your beauty is every kind of tragedy death star saruman rios montt, demons bow down before you me too, captain oh captain casablanca, strong wind maltese falcon, kurt cobain the day I almost finished level eight of super mario bros skywalker split a ninja in half while thinking of you I can never finish you you are a very hardcore pop your name doesn’t appear in any credits anonymous batman is the tom wolfe of comics wolverine, bukowski don corleone could have been your father but no there you are, fluttering through the dirt a lethal, feminine lestat you’ve gathered all the clichés that’s why you have pretty eyes a big heart and skin like dusk seeing you is seeing the horizon the aura of my eyes every time you spit, a halo is born on an angel the universe is beaut
