Coming soon carnales / the prequel to The Pocho Codex and the second in the series of five, The Xicano Genome. Francisco Laguna Correa at Editorial Paroxismo outdid himself. His own Finales Felices will also be out soon. 

screw yrself New York City

                       my withdrawals curl southernish now

               drawling my vowels concaved

                                   further away                     yr convexing nomenclature

      only nurtured until I willfully chose

                                                              to fall from yr graceless cess 

                        tempermental toggle here & there

deekskin / MS 71471h-7 Paper ink draft / November

 

the word choice mimics “my” self in “you”

should “you” read this “I” that isn’t

entirely “me”—just the sobject [sic] unreferenced

cd walk cd smell cd listen & desire

cd fry papas in corn shd/wd “us”

proficiently enough—“I” exist for “you” as “yr”

 

sobject [sic] “my” self to “you”  blanket “me” in fiction of “we”

wrap “yr” hair around “my” fingers preach

pronoun of this

these devices

 

poetically contrived

 

emotion floating on nothing

where is where “you” arbitrarily are in this not “me”

sobjected [sic] to a relative “I” might be “yr” possessive

cherry red velvet curtains

 soft & delicate to the touch & green shag carpet & a picture of a fish

 

in the room

 

there was no window