from Especially, Death
Neil de la Flor
II
One time Mom and I flew to New York where there were hookers in redskin leather pants
battling on Broadway and I thought the plane would crash on the way when
lightning struck it and the Statue of Liberty almost poked me in the eye.
Famous Trojan War fought between Greeks and Trojans over Helen (a Broadway
hooker), the runaway wife of the King of Sparta (Dad), buried somewhere far in
northwestern Turkey.
Once, in my father’s studio,
when I was eighteen or nineteen, I drew some peers but they kept getting smaller
and smaller so my father got irritated and said, Not as you see them. And he
corrected them to life-size. I tried to do them as he did but I couldn’t help rubbing
so I rubbed them and half an hour later my peers were exactly this:
 
Only when his beloved companion Alberto Giacometti (as Patroklos) is killed by the
Trojan prince Salvador Dalí (as Hector) does Albert Einstein (as Achilles) return
to battle, smoldering for revenge.
And just like that things changed.
Neil de la Flor
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