Warning: This Does Not Suck

7th July 2010

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18th St.                                                                     lined with in·dig·e·nous math rusting in Chicago Rain This is my childhood The Sidewalks cry in Spanish The Devil Owns a Condo on Halsted and Cullerton He waves politely from the cafe window when our eyes cross pathsI return the wave out of fear My mother might hear I was rude in the company of adults This is my Culture Giant Empty Churches Consuming viejitas by the building Sunday Mornings roaring in  bells waking the murals Mothers praying for their mestizo children Fathers Mourning covered in cologne and the shirts bearing their fathers names The new anglo ships sit singed docked and ready to conquer again Pilsen sings her songs and cleans her floors  

18th St.

                                                                    lined with

in·dig·e·nous

math

rusting in Chicago Rain

This is my childhood

The Sidewalks

cry in Spanish

The Devil Owns a

Condo on Halsted and Cullerton

He waves politely from the cafe window

when our eyes cross paths
I return the wave

out of fear

My mother might hear

I was rude in the company of adults

This is my Culture

Giant Empty Churches

Consuming viejitas by the building

Sunday Mornings

roaring in  bells

waking the murals

Mothers praying for their mestizo children

Fathers Mourning

covered in cologne

and the shirts bearing their fathers names

The new anglo ships

sit singed

docked and ready to conquer again

Pilsen sings her songs

and cleans her floors