Oscar Lozano
I’m Oscar Lozano, a Cuban-American writer and visual artist from Florida. My work examines what it means to be human—what drives us, what makes us laugh, what haunts us, and what we carry, across borders and beyond assumptions.
Writing that explores the humor, tragedy, and absurdity of American life. Art that seeks to understand it.
“Pink Carnations”
Each week, a friendly young man visited Charlotte in the nursing home. He’d sit and talk to her, and she’d smile and nod even though she didn’t recognize him. Today, he arrived with a bouquet of pink carnations, her favorite. He handed them to her, looking out the window sorrowfully as he did. Charlotte leaned forward, taking his hand, and he burst into tears…