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littlebirdie · 4319 days ago · link · · parent · post: I'm a crummy poet, but I'm writing a poem a day for 2013
poem for January 8 I keep telling her stories vaquero, paleteria search out the insane bits
smothered in vintage price tag anglo
New Mexican’t
appropriator they aren’t wrong gringa It’s my sun, too Frozen dust spackles my window corners
winds scrape gray clouds against a blunt steel
box meant for hauling rodeo steer I am slick ordinary, plastic Virgin Mary
a dim mixing bowl heaped with salted pork I am twisted white-girl braids hiding calico wrinkles
or one upturned sole made of tire-blown rubber I didn’t want to be Outsider but god pushed me
onto a rusty conveyor belt I rolled past watermelon haze hills chico, chile I am rum yellow moths under her medicine light