Name: Condega Serie ‘F’ Magnum
Country: Nicaragua
Shape: Parejo
Size: Toro (6 1/2 inches x 52)
Strength: Medium to Full
In a folding picnic armchair
our man sat like a king on a hill
after a decisive battle.
The orange moon smiled before it was shrouded by the smoke
that crept upward
like a dead man’s soul.
A cheap cigar danced to the rhythm of classic rock songs
like a magician’s wand (burning)
like a conductor’s baton (on fire)
communicating musical ideas
celebrating life
despite the turmoil, tumult, and turbulence.
The cigar was a paint brush
and the night sky was an empty canvas.
Gray on black: an alluring belly dance.
Gray on black: the last breath of a soldier.
Our man felt a poem being written
somewhere in the near future,
a poem written phenomenologically
now.
“Yes, yes,” our man said right now.
“So the muses came like they often do
when they smell a cigar burn.”
And then he jotted down whatever came to him.
Bored Absurdist 