When life turns mundane
And days repeat themselves
When people and their acts
Seem self-similar
I think of you, Gabo
I wait patiently
For magic to spring from reality
It does spring from Life
From the mundane
On dullest day
I step out to behold
The beautiful spring
A saddest day
Holds a surprise
Dreams I dare not
Yet they come true
The places I got kicked
Same places do spring tickles
Instead of me seeking beauty
Beauty seeks me
When the world tells me I am wrong
I wait in the dark hour
For the light and truth to appear
To liberate me
Gabo, thanks for teaching me
Teaching me to wait
To look for beauty in the decadence
To see life and hope spring
From unusual dark spaces
Thanks for bringing to us
The tale of Ship-Wrecked Sailor
And the woman who trained her dog
Trained it to visit her grave
For Hundred Years of Solitude
And Love at the Time of Cholera
For teaching me Love and Death
Mean the same
Thanks, dear Gabo
Mad Decadence 