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ricky garni
 
   

Ricky Garni is a graphic designer and bicycle collector, living in Carrboro, North Carolina. His work has been published most recently in Pank, Medulla Review, Shampoo, The Bicycle Review, Prick of the Spindle, and other venues.

 
   
Orange You Glad I Said China
 
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 hankerchief, 
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.