about the author
Camilo Roldán has a B.A. in both English and Spanish from New Mexico State University. His work will be included in the forthcoming issue of Sin Fronteras/Writers without Borders. This poem is from a series titled Episode Episode.
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Wealth
Camilo Roldán
Switchblade; pinstripe.
OXMYX
Nobody helps nobody
but himself.
Like a snake that eats poison-dart frogs that eat toxic beetles
it’s a case of sequestered venom:
they put the bag on the captain.