How to Avoid Being Poured Into a Carton of Jumex Mango Nectar
i destruct
reject consumption inhalation
you tried to shove my mango into a carton
your eyes won’t stifle me again i won’t
eye torn price stickers again i won’t split
that pile of pulp roots or one fruit again i won’t
consume ruin again i won’t be scooping out
my eyes in a cracked crate again i won’t
mango it won’t unripen my mango won’t gorge on
my sour-sweetness but it passionately wishes to be
unearthed down to its pit fruit unconsumable yet you crave
green crave to exhume my aorta i will cling to the sour
i will not empower you to flay deeply into a hint of angry
pulp writhing between your fingers laced with the taste of
me you strangle me or try to and i blush and
i laugh at the sight of your blistered numb disfigured
taste buds sullied by luscious sour with the picante your
tongue red on me observe me watch me as i bleed
my pulsing unripened mango flings some
tajin you pump back a husk of
mango we pump together we the unreadable
cleave my pumping insides
stickers fused with my marrow
underpriced in a crate tethered
together
About the Author
Kristyn Garza is a soon-to-be graduate of St. Edward’s University majoring in English Literature. The twenty-one year old Chicana was born and raised in the bordertown of McAllen, Texas. Kristyn has had several poems and fiction pieces published in The Sorin Oak Review and New Literati, two St. Edward’s University journals. Her work mostly speaks to her experience as a Mexican-American bisexual woman dealing with mental illness. Her fascination with the mind and the human body in connection to the external world stems mostly from her experience with chronic dissociation and manic episodes where the world suddenly transforms into a scene out of Alice in Wonderland. Whether she be writing a poem or a piece of fiction, Kristyn aims to craft meaning from the seemingly senseless and has an affinity for the dark, lyrical, and dramatic with a concentration in surrealism and dark wit.
