Nick Santos-Pedro is a Canadian poet and neuroarchivist who lives and works in London. His poetry blog is called Felicity Detuning
All She Ever Wanted
A yellow rose,
flattened and dried between the pages
of an encyclopædia
for thirteen years.
A Roy Rogers pen knife,
the blade nicked and unsuitable
for cutting.
A pirated copy
of the latest Microsoft
Office.
A mechanical flower which sings
“Mack the Knife”
and jerks around in time to the music.
A year-long subsciption to a small communist
newsmagazine published quarterly
in France.
A battered Topps baseball card
from 1975,
featuring St. Louis Cardinal
Al “The Mad Hungarian” Hrabosky.
A small set of brass windchimes.
A Mexican Day of the Dead figurine,
depicting a skeleton
playing the saxophone.
A treasury of stories about courageous cats
(and their owners
who are in constant need
of dramatic rescue.)
A shiny new 10-speed bicycle,
red and black.
A napkin signed by Luce Irigaray.
An instruction book for playing
the glass harmonica.
A tattered pennant
commemorating the
Alberta Provincial Under-12 Squash Tournament of 1985.
A bag of gourmet flour.
A newly-translated manual
for the sexual arts,
originally written in Linear
A.
A one hundred-slot CD rack
made of exotic hardwoods
from Melanesia.
A daguerrotype
of a cow pasture,
without cows.
A t-shirt,
medium,
bearing the inscription
“Born To Be Mild.”
A dribble cup from a novelty store
in downtown Baltimore, Maryland.
An unmarked vinyl record
containing an unedited live recording
of the punk band The Nuns,
circa 1978.
A postcard set advertising a Japanese “love hotel”
on the outskirts of Tokyo.
A box of marzipan candies
shaped like various instruments
from the classical orchestra.
A 19th century silver bracelet
with small birds
engraved all over it.
An assortment of squeaky dog toys
depicting British politicians
from the late 20th century.
A DVD compilation containing four episodes of “Magnum P.I.”,
including commentary by the actor who played
Higgins.
A lush coffee table book
detailing the history of Art Deco
fireplace tools.
A small red plastic dragon
with movable arms
and eyes that light up.
A sixty minute cassette tape
filled with the sound of children laughing
and shouting at a playground.
A treasured recipe for apple pie,
handed down for generations.
A small set of miniature flags featuring countries
that no longer exist:
Rhodesia, Siam, the USSR.
A pitchfork and matching pair of
gardening boots.
A twenty five pound gift certificate
for a fancy Ukrainian
restaurant.
Bubblewrap, for popping.
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Nick Santos-Pedro is a Canadian poet and neuroarchivist who lives and works in London. His poetry blog is called Felicity Detuning
All poetry appearing here by Nick Santos-Pedro is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
