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mexican jazz part 71

a list of mexican jazz melodies and possible album titles: a world of borderless poetry burritos enchiladas tacos freejoles border patrol minute men ancient songs ghosts buried under tonantzin the way that we reconsider the memory of who we are where we’re from the border didn’t cross us we just got double crossed theContinue reading “mexican jazz part 71”

MEXICAN JAZZ 70

these are barrio sonnets getting buried underneath concrete aching to return to tonantzin para un tiempo sin fin they they will ache con los nombres de nuestros antepasados for the sake of becoming true freedom caught in la lengua somos quien somos y comos somos we accept you as you are despite the cut tonguesContinue reading “MEXICAN JAZZ 70”

mexican jazz 69

chicano landscapes in a post trump era we might want to call him a joke but he’s pointed at the cancer we are needing to sink into look at examine and reimagine somewhere along the lines we stopped believing that this hatred was buried in our passed that these were all just isolated incidents andContinue reading “mexican jazz 69”

mexican jazz part 68

we are the bones rattling across this turtle island we are the names underneath stone tongues we are all the same dream. awakened passed any notions of race or creed. but we are born of lines of d.n.a. that map our sinew, our blood, our stellae. we are the day keepers from all directions. butContinue reading “mexican jazz part 68”

mexican jazz 67

these are the worlds we occupy between the red and the black between the american and the mexican someone might want to say just drop the mexican you’re american now. and miss the point entirely is the space inbetween that holds the truth. regardless if you know spanish. regardless if you know enough english somewhereContinue reading “mexican jazz 67”

mexican jazz 66

we are the stone calendar left in el mercadito we are the tortilla space ship wandering down cesar chavez avenue we are waiting for the malignant tumor to disappear from marias pansa its the milagro we are all waiting for somewhere underneath the sun we remember we are the ones that came before ourContinue reading “mexican jazz 66”

mexican jazz part 65

we are the ones waking up to freejoles, pan dulce and mexican american dreams caught inbetween paperless borders. more ghost come into the mexica landscape pheasant feathers start to fall next to crumbles of copal. the sidewalk littered with glitter, papel picado and notions of what it means to graduate roosevelt high in this postContinue reading “mexican jazz part 65”

mexican jazz part 64

they tried to deny centro american women and their children rights to an asylum case. even though they know that 90 percent of the women and children fleeing have the right. somehow locking them up in cages. incarcerating children. becomes the place where we have spent our money and our resources. this is somehow aContinue reading “mexican jazz part 64”

mexican jazz part 63

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mexican jazz part 63

we are the memory dancing in tonantzin we are the nobody buried nameless underneath the frontera we are the thirsty drowning place on turtle island we are the sun people no one will forget despite nafta, narco politics, coca cola or all other monsanto derivatives. we are the wayward luna. dancing. opening the ghost ofContinue reading “mexican jazz part 63”