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Poema

a miguel méndez

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6 October 2004 1 Min Read

La Lí­nea
que divide la tataracha del español;
el mastique de mi verbo
de mi raza que talonea su wiri wiri
que wacha el cruzar
de una lengua a la otra

ansina es
en esta tierra de naiden
donde el cactu florece
desolada por el castellano
tatemada por el inglés

donde se fuman frajos
se prenden con mechas
para darse baisasos
clachar el rollo
y se tira barra

Aquí­ rifan los pachuc@s
chol@s, poch@s y Xican@s
no los juniors ni medio claseros sino
espaldas mojadas, beaners e indios:

el bordo
bichi ante el mundo
‘ira con ojos pelones
el retache como su esencia.

*Miguel Méndez es autor de Peregrinos de Aztlán, una novela Xican@ situada geograficamente en Tijuana

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