ghost braids 0.2

ghost braids 0.2
“A Sector of Little Mexico, Califaztlan”

I will always be Boyle Heights East Los Angeles
Eloteros colliding with ICE Police at Big Buy
Cesar Chavez pigeons gossiping about Street wall artists arrested
Little mexico markets selling no name lie pods

Eloteros colliding with ICE Police at Big Buy
There is a special on Mexican copal on isle 13
Little mexico markets selling no name lie pods
Oranges along the 5 highway singing protest nortenias

There is a special on Mexican copal on isle 13
Place your handcuffs along side your California id
Oranges along the 5 highway singing protest nortenias
You cannot stop the river even if its concrete

Place your handcuffs along side your California id
We are all SB 1070
You cannot stop the river even if its concrete
Tell me you’ve spoken calmly to a minute man

We are all SB 1070
Watching the border papers turn into winged tongues
Tell me you’ve spoken calmy to a minute man
Tell me you’ve written softly to your local tea party

Watching the border papers turn into winged tongues
There are smoking mirrors in your closet needing to speak
Tell me you’ve written softly to your local tea party
What are the politics of the seventh sun and children and water

There are smoking mirrors in your closet needing to speak
Do you wait for another Juarez Llorona to shriek before you open your mouth
What are the politics of the seventh sun and children and water
Some people don’t like me writing, speaking and questioning so much

Do you wait for another Jaurez Llorona to shriek before you open your mouth
There are maquiladora finally closing because they have run out
of supply and demand of mujeres
Some people don’t like me writing, speaking and questions so much
Do you know any songs about East Los

There are maquiladoras finally closing because they have run out
of supply and demand of mujeres
I was born with a red and black flint in my tongue
Do you know any songs about East los
Eres mi otro mejor otro mas bello espejo negro y blanco

I was born with a red and black flint in my tongue
There is too much self imposed arrested development in the barrio
Eres mi otro mejor otro mas bello espejo negro y blanco
Flaring colors of hip hop nor-teka salsa corridos

There is too much self imposed arrested development in the barrio
Can you cut open my yollotl and stain red wings on the concrete
Flaring colors of hiop hop nor-teka salsa corridos
Murals re-strung from miracles on Soto and Cesar Chavez

Can you cut open my yollotl and stain red wings on the concrete
I will always be Boyle Heights East Los Angeles
Murals re-strung from miracles on Soto and Cesar Chavez
Cesar Chavez pigeons gossiping about Street wall artists arrested

2 thoughts on “ghost braids 0.2

  1. This was wonderfully written: may I ask if this was a certain poetic form used? I recognize something like this: resonates of a pantoum, if I remember correctly (though that memory is quite foggy).

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