YEAH: that knack for brown lack
of languages skills / of labor skills / of education
of cultural deprivation / economic deprivation
brown lack of economic opportunity / of educational opportunity /
brown flood a’colorin Colorado
Messican lack of recognition of its own citizens civil & human rights
WELL then beaner follow this recipe / spelled brownly for ye
BROWN acquisition of ENGLISH LANGUAGE
BROWN increase in educational attainment
BROWN bilingual education
BROWN compensatory education
BROWN elected officials
BROWN capitalists
BROWN political party (L.A. Brown RAZtlána Unida / La Bra)
BROWN landowners digging trenches into their own tierra amarilla
BROWN cultural pluralism
BROWN racial integration
BROWN judicial decisions
BROWN civil rights legislation
BROWN trade unionism
BROWN selfdeterminism / insert yr imagined autonomous Xicano state here fatso
BROWN voting rights legislation
Chaley: brown enough
but as descendants of fureños chingados
& not quite at that chingón level of those chingones
ivy leaguin their Xicanoismos
& as mexile’s wander wearies him / not wound gold
maybe his halted heart / but nay not earth’s honors--
remembers retainers & receiving treasures /
how when younger w/ his will
he followed & feasted . . . but all favors die
& he who must long leave his beloved will’s
wisdom discerns that sadness & sleep
simultaneously strains that secluded wretch--
in his mind he looks upon a likeness: as if he his will
again he clasps & kisses / as if on his knee he lays
hand & head—as when he beforehand
on thrones benefited / those Mexi-days bygone
words words we wear words words words worn worthy words
wormy words well worth worse / mmm / we wear words wrong words wear ways w/ words willing w/ words
dicen que: always already
or: fix’t fate versus freewill