Poetry: This is What I Have, and It’s Beautiful.

By: Elba Quintero

A polaroid of us in the Adriatic Sea

A medium postcard of that painting we saw in Museo del Prado

A picture of the dog that we both loved so much and miss terribly

A plant that seems to be happy with the place we gave her because now it has a new leaf

A painting of Saturn biting his kid’s head off

A table that we both put together and I can’t wait to have sex in to truly test it

A speaker that plays 80% the music you like but that’s fine because I love you

A pair of windows that lets lots of light in

A couch where our guests can sleep in

A couple of lame light bulbs hanging from the deserted sealing

A set of photographs of an art installation we went to see last year

A gray empty vase

A mess in our kitchen

A plan to paint our walls black

A fridge where we can put our Bauhaus magnets

A black old oven where we’ll cook at least 200 frozen pizzas

A bunch of books that you’ve arranged in such a strange way that you can’t explain it to me

A black porcelain skull that took you 2 days to realize it was there

A pranking system based in our Spotify listening algorithm

A 19 year-long story that I love to tell

A sense of entitlement to be whatever I want to be because that’s also what you want me to be

A very intense level of intellectual connection

A blueprint that explains how it was being us

because they will want to know

because it’s us

because we’re here

and it’s beautiful.

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