A Counter to the Narco Cities

We are finding comfort
in domesticana, connecting to violence
in ways both metaphysical and undeniable.
We are closing ourselves
into a soccer field, into a capital city
that is small but full, lining
our cardboard coffins in paper
flowers. We are mazing
our way out of this life, burrowing
ourselves with those we lost, those we lose, those
we can’t hold onto, because if life is fleeting,
you wouldn’t believe how long death has become.