Cecile and Jacqueline, and: United States

7agosin Marjorie Agosin Translated by Frances Aparicio Cecile and Jacqueline Cecile and Jacqueline, carrying their sixteen years between their legs and wearing their shoes on the wrong feet, entering the cloistered orifice erasing the nights of those sixteen years drying up piss male wounds of old lords wakes of love. Cecile and Jacqueline, carrying their sixteen years between their breasts of wind, swaying breasts trapped inside the mouth of old poets who howl against the lack of good words. Cecile and Jacqueline, carrying the semen of old lemons between the fiery palates of carious coins. Hunchbacked women traveling the same circle of friends penetrated beyond duty. Where do they go with fifty pesos and their shoes on the wrong feet? 8 the minnesota review Marjorie Agosin Translated by Frances Aparicio United States United States, I do not invoke your name in vain, nor do I accuse you of deflowering so many stars. I can only sympathize with your immense solitude, and I realize you're not to blame for having invented life ready-made and Miss Monroe's golden sunsets. But, do admit that you enjoyed the sad illness of our tamed people and you climbed up the Andean paths to stuff yourself with copper, chromosomes and guns. But, thinking it over, in Managua, El Salvador, on Providencia Avenue in Santiago, Chile everyone is wearing cowboy boots in a mute dialogue of rock and roll. ...