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If it were my paradise I would take my time to find every crease and crevice. I would see all that I could see And admire all your mystery I would linger at the river And Linger at her mouth I would taste the water as it swept across my face I would let the [...]
The Sound of you voice lets me pretend like I am there touching you again Letting my mind spin to the point where I can feel your skin our lips pressed together and our bodies intertwined Finding each other with every breath Beneath the covers as if other lovers had never existed before That your [...]
Head to rest thrust those thoughts to the side glance glued to the rear view avoiding what we see in the past the gaze behind tire treads remind of us of where to stop… or slow down pavement worn reminding us others have been here before Pearl Jam sings Last Kiss on the radio… glimpses [...]
I am often too honest and then I get shy my Vulnerability is not a facade and neither is my Bravado My Depth has injured its spine diving into the Shallow too often Would it make you feel better if I lifted my skirt and slapped my dick on the table… Comparisons are never Fair [...]
Scabs Sometimes my scalp is flaky sometimes I spill things on my shirt sometimes I get these little scabs behind my ears and I often have pimples on my ass and sometimes on my legs you know…the backside of my thigh and it gets a little greasy beside my nose in that little crease and I [...]
Delusions of Grandeur (Granduer…grand dur…jur…)… the obvious becomes clear when I can’t even spell it… Think of me the way you would Webster… or Chaucer… Making shit up as I go along Not as big as Shakespeare’s pen but within my brain den I hit every ball like the eight in the pocket with perfect [...]
PRO-WHAT? Are you on official business? Justice for all Just not right now You say slaughter them all to save the one the righteous the American You will put 2000 crosses in front of a church to protest the deaths of the unborn without a qualm of their life to come Yet, let those that [...]
Message from the National Association of Chicano & Chicana Studies: On behalf of Aztlán Reads, I’d like to cordially invite you to the first public reading and signing for the much anticipated and recently released ¡Ban This! The BSP Anthology of Xican@ Literature edited by Santino J. Rivera on September 11, 2012 at 5:00pm at [...]
The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas-Austin will premier an exhibit this fall dedicated to the history of censorship in the United States in the years between World War I & II. The Banned, Burned, Seized, and Censored exhibit will feature first edition copies of some of the most frequently challenged pieces of literature in [...]
The following is an essay I wrote as an undergrad. The chapter “Racial Formation” in Michael Omi and Howard Winant’s work Racial Formation in the United States: From the 1960s to the 1990s (1994) asserts that social structure and racial ideology are not mutually exclusive when discussing the problem of [...]
Just one more year of college. And for me, that means two major projects: my capstone and my honors thesis. The honors thesis is a project like nothing I’ve ever done before. Choosing my own topic. Choosing the books that I want to read. Choosing what and how I want to write on that topic. [...]