Jeffrey Zable

The Real Surrealism

Luis Bun, I said, you’re not well, but I liked one of your movies,

“That obscure object of desire” as I can still visualize a couple

of scenes from it now some forty years later, but then I lose track

of time and things that happened fifteen minutes ago could have

occurred forty years ago and things that happened forty years ago

could have happened this morning, and I guess this is the real

surrealism of life, or maybe just my life, which in many respects

seems to have lost its luster as it’s hard enough for me to get

out of bed after my wife has been gone for a couple of hours,

wash my face, eat the same old cereal, and then turn on the news

which never makes much difference to me anyway unless it’s

presented by that blonde who parts her hair on the opposite side

and has the most kissable lips one could ask for, but I’m not asking

‘cause I’m a happily married man, at least most of the time. . .


Jeffrey Zable is a teacher, musician, and writer of poetry, flash fiction, and non-fiction. His writing has appeared in hundreds of literary magazines and anthologies, more recently in Uppagus, Raw, Phenomenal Literature, Corvus, Third Wednesday, Untitled Writing, and many others.