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letra de la pascualita - sarah morrison

would i rather be la pascualita?
embalmed bride of chihuahua
ninety years on display
and stunning as a dummy is still
undying angel, caught before
her beauty turned like every angel
in life, no one ignored her
now in death no one ever will
her visitors now are the kind who prefer
a pretty thing dead to be able to see it up close
i’d have been the corpse you could behold
to keep feeling like i was why beauty was born

yes, but if i were beauty
unbodied, disinterested sweetness herself
i’d say get over yourself, grieve later
but first put me down
it must be a mistake every time beauty
takes our little shape, turning pascualitas
into dolls into lonely men’s darlings
if beauty’d stayed put as a plum, at whose
worthier grave would we all be fawning?
little haunted burial ground
will not bring my beauty back around
where will i bury her now?
he would have left with a bang
once my beauty left with a bang
how else would a celebrity go?
but i wouldn’t have cried, the price of
regard is to keep a straight face

that waxy contraption–was it always
just ice on the mountain?
i should let it dry in the sun, but just one more
dance then i’ll be done

people say if it dies then it wasn’t
beautiful in the first place but
i was oh, it was
oh, i was
oh, it was

promise you’ll come back reborn a stone
make it something no one can hold
i free you to solve bigger problems
now that you’re gone, what are bigger problems?

i melt the gelid offering down
let it soak and look around
what will i grieve over now?

- sarah morrison

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