heaven (for the lovers)
by Leonardo Mart?nez-Vega 


a world of poison
where the face of justice
veils the heart of corruption
 
money brags
and with a smile
stabs children in the chest
 
every modern angel
follows the way of the assasin
saving souls with bombs and guns
 
then justice clenchs its mighty fist
and the angel and her lover
run from the city to the hills
 
angel and lover
become the androgyne beneath the tree
in the most delicate embrace
 
justice arrives with the morning light
but the two into one fly to heaven
in the postmodern mysticism of a helicopter

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Copyright © 2003 by Leonardo Mart?nez-Vega.

Leonardo Mart?nez-Vega is a twenty-something poet, translator, synth-player, and (hopefully soon) graduate in English literature. Still living with his parents, he spends all his waking hours falling in and out of love with life (what he does in his dreams is, I'm afraid, too intimate to let the world at large know). Leonardo is an editor of Rustlings of the Wind.

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