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For Puig



   


he just appeared, like Rita Hayworth in Gilda (1946)
he went up the stairs, like Claudette Colbert in Imitation of Life (1934)
his eyes widened, like Brigitte Helm in Metropolis (1927)
he screamed when he saw it, like Fay Wray in King Kong (1933)
he ran, like Ann Sheridan in Woman on the Run (1950)
he fell onto his back, like Joan Crawford in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
he wept, like Simone Simon in Cat People (1942)
he bled, like Janet Leigh in Psycho (1960)
he died, like Helen Hayes in A Farewell to Arms (1932)
he saw light just about everywhere
Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué is a poet and writer living in Chicago. He is most recently the author of Losing Miami (The Accomplices, 2019) and Madness (Nightboat Books, 2022), which was a finalist for the Publishing Triangle’s Thom Gunn Award in Gay Poetry and the T. S. Eliot Foundation’s Four Quartets Prize. He is also co-editor of An Excess of Quiet: Selected Sketches by Gustavo Ojeda, 1979–1989. He is currently a Humanities Teaching Fellow at the University of Chicago.