6.04 / April 2011

The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living Or, How I Recall You, Absent, With Two Red and White Things, Memento Moris

Rose Hunter

I.
White on red Oso Negro
Vodka

Destilado 100% de Grano
38% Alc. Vol. CONT. NET.
desde 1940
the black bear, the red halo
the abuse of this product
is damaging to your health

a pale sweat line
your brow and red
scalp

bottled & distributed by
Casa Cuervo, S.A de C.V.
Río Churubusco 213
Col. Granjas México D.F.
hecho en México

our blood, our bone

II.
Pall Mall Rojo, famous American
cigarettes

new presentation, smoking
during pregnancy increases the risk
of premature birth and
low birth weight; there
was no risk of that

although I said-
a baby having a baby
you said, actually

no existe a cigarette that
reduces the risk to your health, no existe
means, the square sleeve, the plaster wall
blood and bone, what we were
to each other, but this says

British American tobacco
Mexico, S.A de C.V.
Francisco Madero 2750
Col. Centro
Monterrey, Nuevo León
made in Mexico

our blood, our bone.

* title after Damien Hirst.

Links to Rose Hunter's writing can be found at "Whoever Brought Me Here Will Have To Take Me Home." Her book of poetry, to the river, was published in 2010 by Artistically Declined Press. Poems of hers have been published or are forthcoming in such places as Diagram, The Nervous Breakdown, kill author,elimae, qarrtsiluni, Juked, and Bluestem, as well as once previously (most happily) in PANK. She is the editor of the poetry journal YB, and lives in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. She has written sixty "You As Poems."