Jose Hernandez Diaz

@josehernandezdz.bsky.social

Former Writer in Residence at U of Tennessee - author of The Fire Eater, Bad Mexican, Bad American, The Parachutist, Portrait of the Artist as a Brown Man.

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“They had a cake with a guitar, drum set and microphone as frostings. They played ‘Lateralus’ for the wedding song and or mosh pit. The crowd spun around them like a trance.”

“The Concert Lovers” by Jose Hernandez Diaz, new poetry out today at OKD: buff.ly/iNzjiMA

The background has layers that almost look like cut-out construction paper, with the very back being a red-orange with a faded drum kit on top, and the remaining three layers being a crowd of people in a gradient from gray-blue to dark-blue. In the center is a white-pink wedding cake tilted a few degrees to the right, and a swirly pale yellow decorative frame behind it, which marks the beginning of the lemon-yellow lower-third of the image. Most importantly, on top of the wedding cake is Sad Jack (or should we say Jill?) in a bride's veil with his face up against a black electric guitar wearing a tuxedo around the base of its neck.
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Same insanity “Some of you may die, but it’s a sacrifice I am willing to make.” — Lord Farquaad “Let them take out Los Angeles.” — Donald Trump

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throwback to my first print publication in 2011, Bombay Gin, which was published by the Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics/Naropa... back then they sent out acceptance letters by messenger pigeon jk but it was via snail mail.

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