Pablo Damián

Freudian Slips On Mute

A secret handshake announced 

the end of the bloody feud between

car stereo thieves and single moms


Under the piss-colored halo of the streetlight posts

the smoke machines spewed their

repentant philanderer speech 


And the cavernous voices of the presidential ghosts 

asked in unison:


“When is the next leap year?”


Pablo Damián (August 22, 1987) is an Argentine poet and translator currently living in Buenos Aires.