Luis lives in California and works in the mental health field in Los Angeles. His poetry has been published by Blue Collar Review, Deadbeat Press, Kendra Steiner Editions, Mad Swirl, Thirteen Myna Birds, and Unlikely Stories. His latest poetry book, Make the Water Laugh, was published by Rogue Wolf Press in 2021. I am partial to Coke and I say soda pop only when I bring up Soda Pop's name in The Outsiders.
HOODIE AND COCAINE
LUIS CUAUHTÉMOC BERRIOZÁBAL
Every time I wear
The Echo and the Bunnymen
concert shirt, I get
positive comments from
strangers I meet.
Today was no different.
It is the best fucking
shirt in the place I was told.
As soon I walked
into Alex’s Bar in Long Beach
the ticket taker told me
I worked for Echo and the
Bunnymen. He said, the
singer is a pill. He said
I have so many stories
about him. He told me before
he went on stage to make
sure to guard two things
with my life, his hoodie
and his cocaine.