Mal Agueros By Nick Carbo


If you come to Mojacar

and peel open an orange full of worms,

count how many there are because

those are the days it will take for your body

to decompose after you are buried.






























Nick Carbo, "Mal Agueros" from Andalusian Dawn.
Copyright © 2004 by Nick Carbo.
Reprinted by permission of Nick Carbo.
Source: Andalusian Dawn (Cherry Grove Collections, 2004)
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