Everyday Canvas

Ropa Vieja

Prompt: Have fun with these words: steak, pull, true, minor, quotation, confrontation, sin and constant.

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Ropa Vieja

Mine is a minor sin,
rather a prickling rhythm
pulled out of a pincushion
when it comes to writing
in my blog,
for in the heat of taking
concepts apart,
I introduce a constant confrontation
to every quotation
diagonally reinterpreting
with all the clamor and bravura
its highfalutin’ meaning
as if sabotaging a feast
like steak with red hot peppers
--what the chefs from Cuba
call Ropa Vieja, in other words,
old clothes, with tangles and snags--
and while I wiggle my sentences,
I feed my unblemished record
of causing a true disruption.