Someone else’s shirt & trousers
Lester Gómez Medina
Auntie Berta followed to the letter
the recommendations to drive
don Lorenzo away.
The last one came from auntie Amparo,
the eldest of the sisters, ‘Get
a shirt and trousers.’
The garments had to be someone else’s,
so, don Lorenzo would know that it was over.
‘Iron the clothes, so that when he appears,
he catches you by surprise and does not come back.’
Auntie Berta borrowed the iron,
the clothes were given to her by a neighbour.
Every afternoon, even after the novena,
she ironed and left the clothes hanging
over the back of her bed,
the same bed where many times
don Lorenzo whispered in her ear
how much he loved her.
the recommendations to drive
don Lorenzo away.
The last one came from auntie Amparo,
the eldest of the sisters, ‘Get
a shirt and trousers.’
The garments had to be someone else’s,
so, don Lorenzo would know that it was over.
‘Iron the clothes, so that when he appears,
he catches you by surprise and does not come back.’
Auntie Berta borrowed the iron,
the clothes were given to her by a neighbour.
Every afternoon, even after the novena,
she ironed and left the clothes hanging
over the back of her bed,
the same bed where many times
don Lorenzo whispered in her ear
how much he loved her.
Lester Gómez Medina was born in Nicaragua, raised in Costa Rica and settled in London since 2014. In 2018, he was awarded with the Third Prize in the Bart Wolffe poetry competition, organised by Exiled Writers Ink. In 2021, Lester published his first pamphlet, The Riddle of The Cashew.
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