Trust

D.S. Maolalai

we're all drinking down

by the window. I'm at the bar.

to pick up a plate

for the group. potato chips.

at our booth an old

friend's new husband

is telling my fiancée

that maybe instead

they should run off together

and leave us to sort out

the paperwork. and he says that he likes

how she drinks down her whiskey.

that he likes how she looks

in that dress. I am told this, of course

on the following morning, and we laugh

at his confidence / feel bad for her /

debate over whether to tell her.

and the thing is, I'm not even

worried. and the thing is, it's never

been like that before.

D.S. Maolalai fue descrito por un editor como "un poeta cosmopolitano", y por otro como "prolífico, bordeando en la incontinencia". Su trabajo ha sido nominado trece veces para el premio Best Of The Net, diez veces para el premio Pushcart, y ha sido publicado en tres colecciones, recientemente, en "Noble Rot" (Turas Press, 2022).

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