Nadine Maestas, p.3



FEBRUARY 16, 1792

The severe ramblings of a rogue were captured sometimes by a daguerreotype sometimes by a traveling companion one might like to call Santo. This has consistently proved to be a change in literary technology, and can often function as well as Eli Whitney’s famed drink: the cotton gin.


(a simple torn on the cotton)

let out the
damn library around both of us!
with the town visited my name, wish I’d
let out a damn long visit.

She’s the only cab driver I talk insistent
rush marbles
an old question and that was the wrong

mob and that the few rude and that the
revolver pinch and that the last door
contains yellow hair quickly and gently, a scrap of