Wednesday Mar 30, 2005

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Monica had a baby
Black brown white?
Abuelita looked ashamed
Making the sign of the cross
Ai Santa Maria!
Watching the game
Tata drank another beer
Eyes half closed and red
A shake of the head
From Tia Lupe
who knows who the father is?
Oh Jesus help Mi Familia
Travesa! Cochina! Mijitia

Above Monicas bed
The Virgin of Guadelupe
Half smiling upon Latina mother and child
Blesses as others curse
As thousands of bloody bones
Lay strewn, mutilated and naked
Crying to Marys throne
From Americas middle class homes

Mire!
Monica had a baby
Bastard nameless - alive

<i>NOTES: Abuelita = "little grandma"
Ai Santa Maria = "Oh Holy Mary"
Travesa = "Trouble Maker" or "Doer of bad things"
Cochina = Literally "Dirty Pig" referring to a slutty girl
Mijita = "My little Girl"
The Virgin of Guadelupe = the Mexican version of the Virgin Mary
Mire! = the imperative "LOOK!"
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tiberiusprime:
Thank you - yes, as far as her physical attributes are concerned I know her body was very decomposed. So what I am referrring to is an imagined soul still down there in limbo, forever rolling with the tides and wondering at the horrifc act her husband committed.

thanks!
lucille:
I didn't think of it as a poem. Mainly, just random bursts of feeling and thoughts. It's real, I made it from scratch, like really bad cookies. I have taken better looking craps than that piece of literature I threw up in my journal last night, but I think that bitterness is ugly. Thank you for your insight.

p.s.Your from my hometown.

[Edited on Mar 31, 2005 9:42PM]

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