Library search
5/9/16
7:40pm
procrastinating studying Physics
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I want the books to be old
And new
I want a range so that I am not gasping for the air
Trapped in between the pages
That don’t see daylight
Because they do not want us to know
Of our power
Of our own gente’s words
So I am eternally searching for Latinx last names
Mostly Latinas
Who understand my brown skin struggles
And still just want to write
About themselves
About beauty
About ugliness
About whatever they want because they will not deny that they are good writers
But being brown penetrates the epidermis of the pages
As we transfer our color into our words
Because we cannot ignore ourselves
The white world ignores us as they find our color distasteful
So we scream
And write in Spanish
English
Spanglish
Translated
Fill our own libraries until the bookshelves are heavy and sag
Like Coatlicue’s breasts
Because she and the bookshelves are ready to feed us knowledge of ourselves
To make sure we are alive with our own fierceness
That we recognize our own blood in the pages
So we can say “ese es mi gente!” with pride
Y nos sentamos at the bookshelf
Our backs bending over the book
That will make us stand tall again
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