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Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué


Tell-All

I have many bad memoirs

I mean, memories

 

of times I had the undivided

attention of my peers

 

when I faked textures and enchantments

 

when I polished a little sea urchin

 

when I predicted my own humiliation

 

I have seen many complicated movies

well, photographs really

or sometimes stories

I have written many bad photographs

over recent years

 

my father jr says what

good does it do

to stand so close

 

well, jr, static energy

when my reflection and I meet

without a mirror

 

I have had much heartbreak

I mean, heartburn

 

I am known in most circles for poor digestion

and leisurely eating

 

when I sought out Corsica

I put it on a sorry little broadside

so that I would not be led to Corsica

 

I wrote a terror on my terror

which led me to a successful autobiography

in which I tell you all how I got here

 

my father drowned in a lake

the most divine chocolate cake


Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué is a poet and writer living in Chicago. He is the author of three books of poetry, including most recently Losing Miami (The Accomplices, 2019) which was nominated for the Lambda Literary Award in Gay Poetry.  His fourth poetry book, Madness, is forthcoming from Nightboat Books. He is also the co-editor of a book of selected sketches by the artist Gustavo Ojeda, forthcoming from Soberscove Press in 2020. He is currently a PhD student in English at the University of Chicago where he works in the study of sexuality.