THE PARLANCE OF SPANIARDS by Rick Garni

If we were in Spain today
and if you were to ask
Do you love me? And if
I were to answer Oranges 
from China you would
cry because that means
No Way in the parlance of
Spaniards and in other places
actually Spain only, really
definitely not China or
thereabouts but if you 
were to cry after my Oranges
from China remark I would 
hand you my handkerchief, 
not out of pity, but out of 
love, for there are no oranges 
in China, not when I think
of you, no way are there
any oranges or China there.

Ricky Garni is a graphic designer. Yesterday he discovered that the coolest person born on his birthday was no longer Haley Mills or Teri Garr, it was McCoy Tyner. McCoy friggin' Tyner. Ricky Garni is so happy that he was born on December 11th. I mean now he is, since yesterday.