Casanova’s Memoirs

The weevils chewing through the wall and burrowing into the hollows. Rot sets in. Yet I wake up and the sun is a perfect circle, a ball of fire, a kissing fool’s star. I smile. To hell with the weevils. Let them weevil their way all the way down and through, allow them the happiness of their lark and sabotage, their downsizing of foundation. I will not lift a finger to stop the process of degeneration. After all, decay has its rightful place under the sun, just like everything else. I look out. The sun is a perfect circle, a perfect saw cutting skies into halves and quarters. Its carnage is celestial by nature. The light on the fence dances in pellets and digits, splashes and slash-marks. The sun stalks the world in fingers of light. Same as the weevils chew through the wood and walls without end. Soon a collapse is coming. The sun will make intrepid love to disaster and ruins. The sun will go on enacting the role of orange-bellied Casanova. I will do my part and keep smiling, as if framed in a camera capturing my likeness for the annals of fading.

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About John Biscello

Originally from Brooklyn, NY, writer, poet, performer, and playwright, John Biscello, has lived in the high-desert grunge-wonderland of Taos, New Mexico since 2001. He is the author of four novels, Broken Land, a Brooklyn Tale, Raking the Dust, Nocturne Variations, and No Man’s Brooklyn; a collection of stories, Freeze Tag, two poetry collections, Arclight and Moonglow on Mercy Street; and a fable, The Jackdaw and the Doll, illustrated by Izumi Yokoyama. He also adapted classic fables, which were paired with the vintage illustrations of artist, Paul Bransom, for the collection: Once Upon a Time, Classic Fables Reimagined. His produced, full-length plays include: LOBSTERS ON ICE, ADAGIO FOR STRAYS, THE BEST MEDICINE, ZEITGEIST, U.S.A., and WEREWOLVES DON’T WALTZ.
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