i’m an environmentalist poet
i’m a red and black bird poet
i’m a hip hop on thursday poet
ranchera indigenista liberista poeta
i write to save my life
i write to thank and say i love you to water
i write to the echo the universe
i write cuz i’m in love with sun and tonantzin
i write to inspire myself and my friends
i’m trying to reach that poem that will have you smiling for weeks
que puede hacer to alma reir
i’m a poet trying to break free from white cannon paradigms
i’m a poet searching for lies and contradictions
i’m a poet trying to strip away my masks and put others on
i’m a poet trying to get to know my soul
i’m trying to touch the earth and see quetzalcoatl
across these computer screens
i’m a digi-teka high and low tek aztek
i am olmeca sun soldier cutting through this millineum
with verse re-surrecting, re-calling, re-imagine carved in stone
i want to carve them on computer screens, facebooks,wordpress,
laptops, mural walls, the waters of your heart, the waters of my soul
i write Ingles sin barreras, espaniolee con fronterass
buscando amor sin limites y tambien para ver si puedo romper
esa NAFTA frontera llena de guerra con mis palabras
i want to live there sometimes
in all the vibration of us beyond the word
i write because i want to grow silent
i want to write poems that inspire children to start baby revolutions
baby fist higher and purer in the air
i want children to write true anthems for real nations
i want chldren to write the histories of origins and all peoples
i’m a eracism poeta
i’m prolific because i want you to do it better than i ever could
i’m a nobody /just a small piece of dust sage poet
i’m a love bomber
weapons of mass creation singer poeta
i write poemas in acrylic, sharpies,house paint, oils, charcoals and memories
sometimes i just let the wind take la palabra
sometimes i let the poems push me into dream states i couldn’t otherwise
i’m a poet whose not afraid of war machines
echoing love into the fear of us
echoing love into soldiers dreams
and politicians plagued in the nightmare they call american dream and globalism
i write poems in splan-glee-teka
lokat=nahuatl-agua lumbre
blood spilled-concrete-surrealist-dada- interventions
i like writing sonnets in the key of ometeo
haikus in the stream of streets
hip hop boleros to ozomalti and the hero twins
my lovers?/ coyoxauhqui/tonantzin/tonantiuh/atl
you/tojil/freedom fighters/k-12 public school teachers pushing their hearts into desks and children/
social workers/la llorona/los llorones/water singers/
yeah i write sometimes
to re-member why i’m alive and why i’m living
and where i’m wanting this collective dream to heal
what kind of poems do i write?
poems about us
poems about what we’re trying to hide
poems about what we dont want to think about
poems about what we think we can’t do
poems about the impossible being possible
poems about blue light
what kind of poems do i write?
just same old same old
that got poets looking at the gates of stars
in the beginning
when they were thinking about never ending
saying
i should write mega-sus all around and inside
my imploding yollotl