Dreams: Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal

THE BOOK OF ABSURD DREAMS

The bird of wisdom carries the words
I speak in my sleep
across the sea,
who recite the words to a man who looks like me.

My double takes my words to his grave.
They become a book
in his coffin.

My double’s corpse is ravaged by worms.
One of the worms ends
up in a bird’s gut.
This bird flies across the sea reciting the words

from the book of
my double’s corpse.
I dream of the absurdity of such a book.