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Limarev & Cruz - Three Poems

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Once a few years ago I heard about Jaime reading other people’s poems in his podcast. And sent him three of my poems, he did an awesome job reading them and uploaded recordings on the internet. They were viewed about 200 times. Almost 200 people got acquainted with my poems and indirectly with me. And some time ago I thought, why not to try and give my poems the second chance. I’m alive. The poems are about me. Hence they are still relevant. That is why I have made this kind of remix. Added some noises and … voilá. A poetic sound collage and a surprise for Jaime.

Alexander Limarev: parallels2000.blogspot.com/2014/10/alexander-limarev-1964.html; @redzombiapost
Jaime Alejandro Cruz: cruzfolio.com; @cruzfolio

Alexander Limarev, freelance artist, mail art artist, curator, poet, photographer from Siberia / Russia. Participated in more than 1000 international projects and exhibitions. His artworks are part of private and museum collections of 72 countries. His artworks as well as poetry have been featured in various online publications including UNDERGROUNDBOOKS.ORG, BUKOWSKI ERASURE POETRY ANTHOLOGY (Silver Birch Press), NOKTURNO.FI, TREEHOUSE ARTS, ZOOMOOZOPHONE REWIEW, BACKCHANNELS, BRILLER MAGAZINE, THE GAMBLER MAG, CARAVEL LITERARY ARTS JOURNAL, JULIET ART MAGAZINE, TUCK MAGAZINE, ANGRY OLD MAN MAGAZINE, CALIBAN ONLINE MAGAZINE, DEGENERATE LITERATURE, NYUGATPLUSZ LITERARY MAGAZINE, GALLERY & STUDIO ARTS JOURNAL, ZOUCH MAGAZINE, ODDBALL MAGAZINE, MACRO MAGAZINE, MAINTENANT etc

Jaime Alejandro Cruz (he/him) is an award-winning playwright and multimedia creative. He is a Mexican-American raised in Wyoming committed to his calling of serving through the arts.
His plays have been produced at Las Vegas Little Theater, University of Wyoming, Balagan Theater, and Rain City Projects, among others. Jaime has created educational plays for young audiences for the Casper Children’s Theater, Pine Bluffs High School, and more. His latest supernatural coming of age screenplay, The Inherited, was a Screamcraft International Semifinalist as well as a ScriptLab International Quarterfinalist. Jaime’s work has been workshopped and developed at The American College Theater Festival at the Kennedy Center, Last Frontier Theater Conference, University of Las Vegas, Relative Theatrics, Northwest Playwrights, and others.
In an effort to serve fellow independent creatives, Jaime began the Arts Calling Podcast, and premiered the Coalition for Digital Narratives this year, a digital workshop for short-form storytelling and new media. Jaime creates character-driven stories with a penchant for the absurd about family, working-class people, and the Other.
BFA University of Wyoming | Theatre & Dance, Writing & Directing Emphasis
AA Casper College | Theatre Performance

lyrics

Did the little boy exist?

Who was that little boy
In a frill from magpie fluff?
Who was that little boy
whose fingers are tenderer than tarragon?
Who was that little boy
in a cloak from the tears of Harlequin?
Who was that little boy
with a look of a work-worn scaffold?
Who was that little boy whose thoughts...
But what do we know?
Precipitated into a hellhole
(for the next to feel shame)
‘cause he couldn’t bear
in his haggard body
the gift of God –
a beautiful soul?
An immortal soul.

Did that little boy exist?
It seems that all this is rubbish
and cowardice.


I am alive

On the edge of a caramel circle or, perhaps, of an abyss.
Sliding with my right sponge foot, when going left and…
Sliding with my left shortcrust foot, when going right.

I’m discovery.
I slowly comprehend.
I hurriedly clamber.
I get back.
I clamber.
I butt.
I shift my feet.
I catch up.
I’m concealment.

I step with my knees on my own unremarkable hands.
Vanilla stick crust…
I am alive.


Predestined

It’s predestined
blood-coloured sunset
it’s predestined
bleak cold day
it’s predestined
gulp of poison
to my lips
you brought
it has come true
I’m the past
I’m the shadow
all over
and all is…
predestined.

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from Concr​è​te Poetry Two, released January 25, 2023

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