Synchronicity
All the Things You Don't Want
18th Century Man
Ordering a bourbon
at the hotel, I looked out
the window and watched
as it began to snow.
Just like the cowboy of yesteryear,
who ordered a bourbon in a saloon,
gazed out the window, and saw
a cactus.
to happen to a camera are all the things
that you don’t want to happen to you
or to your wife or to your children
or to your best friend or to your doorman
(should you be so lucky) or your milkman
(should you be so old) or the garbage man
(should you be an early riser) but mostly not
to your family - your wife or husband or son
or daughter or your love or your lost love or you:
separation, dust, fungus, haze
My friend Sam fears the consumption of an apple
and might poison him, were he to indulge in one,
he might die. And so he never partook of an apple,
nary a one, nary once. Years later,
after not eating a plethora of apples and
with a noteworthy absence of apples in
his tummy, Sam died, pale and supine
upon a landscape bereft of blossom’d trees,
absent of friends and dear loved ones,
for alas they had all gone long ago to
a variety of different orchards,
blue of cloud and white of sky,
rich with who knows,
bereft of nothing.
Ricky Garni grew up in Miami and Maine. He works as a graphic designer by day and writes music and take pictures by night. His latest work, A GLORIOUS GALLOP V. AN ADAGIO OF INDIFFERENCE, was released in the Spring of 2020.
