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I am happy to present a new series of original poems by Bogdan Dragos. We have been publishing our poems in Masticadores (Gobblers and LatinosUSA) for 4 years, every week.

As the author, I received hundreds of visits to our website: Masticadores.

Receive our affection and kindness. And we invite you to share with us every piece of your poems, which appear in LatinosUSA in the section of a short stories, which are small stories.

Thank you Bogdan!

J. Ré Crivello

Founder and director of Masticadores.com (20 blogs, 10 countries, 8 languages)

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I burn her things, man by Bogdan Dragos

I’ve never seen a bathroom

so perfectly empty

before

literally just the toilet

a sink

and a shower-head. No tub

or cabin. Nothing

And a dark brown

irregular circle

captured the eye

from the very core of the room,

on the blue tiles

«That’s where I burn

her things,» he said

«What things?»

«You wanna see?»

«Nah, I’d rather just listen

to you talk about it.»

«I burn her things, man.

Been doing so ever since she left

for the final time.

Every night I sit right there

on the toilet

and drink

and drink

and place a dress or some

stockings or

shoes, panties, whatever’s

left in her wardrobe

over there on the ground

and set it on fire.

And watch it burn. And drink.

The window’s open. Smoke goes

out

along with all my thoughts

of her.

When things refuse to catch fire

I pour some of her perfume

on them.

It feels good to smell it burning.»

«Who was she

really?» I asked. «Wife? Girlfriend?»

«Muse,» he said. «When she was

around I could do

my work. But now… all I do is

drink all day and burn her

things and watch them in the

flames. The rest of the time

I just sleep.»

I found out later

that he

was talking about his

daughter

She was alive

and fine

living somewhere with

a boyfriend

She even visited from time to

time but

he could no longer see her

as a muse. Only as

a distant friend

Also the clothes he

burned

weren’t even hers

he bought them himself

to feed the

delusion

and the delusion

grew too large

and eventually ate him