Benito Vila’s poem: Multiverse Pop


Quantum thought eliminates the need for binary truths.

I drive on the wrong side of the road whenever I can.

When patterns repeat, ideas appear, there’s simplicity in that.

Good teachers teach basic concepts and break all the rules.

Plot twists. Ruby shoots Oswald. Romeo loves Juliet.

Juliet loves Romeo. Kesey gets the keys to a closet.

I’m as okay as a sensitive person can be. I talk to birds.

Multiverse pop. The compass tells me the direction I’m heading,

but won’t ever say which way to go.

Adam is too busy counting to notice Eve needs more.

Tom Tyler said we were living in a golden age,

a time when it was easy to roam, easy to go here and there.

No one believed him. Now, we get what he meant.

Tact, kindness and trust look inward. The madder I get,

the further out I go. Normal is a place somewhere in Illinois.

Early one morning the sun was shining.

It doesn’t matter if the rest of the story is true.

Who I meet, what I feel, keeps me coming back.

Mad poets of America unite. Be exuberant.

We, who were alive before time,

woke up here as children, wordless, screaming, helpless,

finding ourselves having to unlearn what’s being taught.


Benito Vila lives in a remote fishing village on Mexico’s Pacific coast. His poetry was first published in 2020 in Love Love, an underground magazine based in Paris. His other published work includes profiles of “counterculture” instigators for pleasekillme.com, and editing email correspondences from poet Charles Plymell into two books, Of Myth & Men and Keyboard Intercourse (for Bottle of Smoke Press, 2021 and 2023). In 2024, his poetry has appeared in VOICES (from Cold River Press), MAINTENANT 18 (from Three Rooms Press) and BEAT LIFE MAGAZINE (National Beat Poetry Foundation).

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