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[1962 / 5th sun / our present]

1/28/2013

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MS 44765d-145 (Private Collection) / typescript signed by Francisco “Pancho” Chastitellez Sr / grandfather of Chaley Chastitellez / songs gathered in shoebox at Pancho’s Tuxson barrio apartment / December:


Radio AZtlán Amp & Alternator airwaves / Gila Valley 

SONG: TransHistoricoOntological Honkey Tonk Blues

“. . . an empty bottle / a broken heart

                                    “& ye’re still on mah mind”

           

goddamnit San Avabiche / hijo de la chingada a su puta madre turn up that radio goddamnit I love this one--

           
            “yes: me vale verga all this mess:

                        “& bueno: mahs:

                        “alone & forsaken

                        “so blue I cd die

                        “I jes set here drankin

                        “til that bottle run dry

                        “to tryn forget ye

                        “I’ve turned to th wine

                        “an empty bottle / a broken heart

                        “& ye’re still on mah mind”


S T R U M  [sic]

                       

                          “sd an emptyempty bottle & mah broken heart

                                    “& yeee’re still on mah mmmind”

           

            spoken voice over music / & strummin strumm strummin


 “w/ a little devotion now / steady: GO

“casul day like any other

                        “jet aircraft rippin a noisy sky

                        “& I sd to ye goodbye ye cruwel

                        “cruwellll girl ye’ve scorned this

                        “delicate boy ye’ve murdered

                        “somein truly fine wit-in im

                        “dulled im completely & left

                        “im alone in a dumb dilemma

                        “w/ his martini before im

                        “& another jet screaming

                        “more in some future imperfect later

                        “yes smart as ye somethin rare

                        “indeed some true pillar

                        “of sun rightly so rightly so”

up    S     T     R     U     M     M                       órale thas um charp chit

                        “singin ever since those Greeks

                        “found earth a spherical body

                        “found emselves preoccupied

                        “by determinin its size

                        “& a calculatin its circumference

                        “smartly & blessdly from Zoos

                        “what they reached stonishinly

                        “accurate considerin their means

                        “& methods vailable tecknilogically

                        “then / / / WELL”

                       

                        strum strummm strum strummm

                        
“well when I fin mahself here

“spendin mah last dime getting drunker

                        “all the time & ye know ye just caint

                        “forget yr western civilizaaaaation

“& gods bless ye Yoropayin baby I love ye

“& I miss ye & yr amakin this Amurkan boy cry”

applause somewhere /   yea get along li’l doggy hoppalong /

clear on thru clear on thru li’l lugnut alright alrighty turn

that down now pinches cabrónes get ta work en chinga pues

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Xochitl’s Poem: To Chaley

1/27/2013

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Picture

today

wing’s drunken bow

haunted in snow

flew away

this swan’s

fine show

glows

beaming apathy

¡white agony!

don’t deny

yr plumes aren’t clamped

lights assign

contempt

spinning spells a-twirl my & me w/

the oceankissing color the black of my neck

& lakes you did break--

as I turn I laughing & chatting to

reeling but it’s hard to drown

turning soft drums

turning to bare suffocation

turning illegal & I’m a john-a-dreams when I met

the sound of my bloodocean but I clung to

catch my heavy heaved breath

down there in my green lean guts

& to breathe water you slid into my sorespace--

everyone swam in w/ yr dark/ curious fringe

sucked the breath right out of me ye

know me in yr eyes

my fear


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La Yndia

1/26/2013

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La Yndia

ye ran yr fingers thru my hair /

                        & I looked away / another day I left / when

                          I shd / have stayed / yr hair darknightsky

                                      will have streaks of light / when . . . o . . . realizes

                       

                                                                                                                        our

            grass livid dayshine                              / brownskin / black eyes / sing for ye

                                   

hands on yr head mine                           & her small freckled hand / held ladybugs /

Cam River & Mathematic  Maroma

            hands on yr head mine                          Bridge / & they flew / & she moved / & I fell

                                    & she woke / &

fingers pulsing pushing into sky               there wuz more before

                                      I began

inside those leaves / chambers                                    & I read

where I want to crawl

shine on high Harlem moon 

                                                  shine on heartless moon       

                                                Harvest Harlem moon

                                                few more hours

                                           O shine shine

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