"We were sitting in traffic..."

[zirconium]

Currently reading Martín Espada's A Mayan Astronomer in Hell's Kitchen. So far, my favorite poem in it is The Mexican Cabdriver's Poem for His Wife, Who Has Left Him.

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[okrablossom]

Thank you! That was funny :) Although maybe it wasn't supposed to be?

[zirconium]

It struck me more as melancholy than funny when I first read it, but I wonder if it's because the book version has more air? (In the book, there are stanza breaks after "for you" and "trees," and there's more space between the lines and even within the letters as well. Funny thing, typesetting...