A Place to Put Your Name

Everyone wants their name
to live forever

or, at least, as long
as their lover.

Some people build great
towers that are really

just giant signposts
to hold up their name.

Don’t ask where
they get the money.

Some people will keep talking
to you until one day

you wake up hungover
and find their name

tattooed on your ass.
Some people write poems

so they can type their name
up at the very top,

whether the poem
is good or not.

I don’t blame us, really,
and I don’t blame James

or Francisco Franco.

After all, we can’t all be
Simón José

Antonio de la Santísima

Trinidad Bolívar Palacios

Ponte y Blanco.

–April 19, 2018