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mangoes

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Oct 4, 2020
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—Maurice Schlesinger

—Frank Ocean, Sweet Life

—Giselle Ayupova

—Mango, S E

—Sergey Levin

I asked him recently if he thought I was crazy, as some do.

He said no, I want all the same things.

I wished I could tell him how I always washed my mangoes and wiped my chin,

I thought if I wore a sweater and a slip and a hat at the right times, life would turn out okay.

I'd like to call him, tell him how the wind is blowing hair across my face now.

Instead, I sit quietly, in the backwoods of Virginia

eating an unwashed, unpeeled mango

with the juices dripping down my chin.

—Cate Mighell


—Still Life of Magnolias and Mangos,Lloyd Sexton, Jr., 1973

I think the sun is a man,

but it’s hard to tell in this light. No,

it’s a mango, and I’m jealous of her.

—The Sun in Bemidji, Minnesota,
Sean Hill


—Van Gogh,The Mango Trees, Martinique

Seven summers as the mango sapling you planted together matured into the stunted young tree in the courtyard,

fruit glowing red and gold,

left to rot right where they fall to the ground.

Seven summers as your son grew

from an infant to a child old enough to understand abandonment

and reel from the sickly sweet stench of loss.

For the rest of his life, the smell of mangoes will make it hard for him to breathe.

— The Mango Tree,
Vaswati Das

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