Luther in Me
My awareness One moment to another Measured by the morning sun Finished by the nightly stars Skirrs like the wind that fills my lungs I sense no motion Only conmotion I dread the passing of the hours Making me feel pointless as I awake and it’s 7…
Read Moret-90:sd at 2am
crunching metal twisting engine sounds that promise clear blue skies on a loft out there.
Read MoreSwing’in it by
The clouds were in a hurry today. They moved like on a call. Giving out a radiant white look, they were cumulus on a majestic trek. I saw the wind too shake the electric wires hanging midair between the sky and the ground. A green covered landscape…
Read MoreThat one dawn
That night spelled out so many things, like a petate strewn on the floor. My brain lay idle awaiting answers. I couldn’t figure A from Z to be frank, and I was. Frank’s the name. I was born in Aztlan. And the rays of the dawn broke not only my…
Read MoreBarrio Warriors
I haven’t the slightest idea who came up with such a catchy name but let me tell you, it ain’t good. It is supposed to resonate in the mind of the gringo and it probably will. I can imagine some republican speech writer coming up with it in…
Read MoreAztlán es Tijuana también
Curiosamente Aztlán les causa pavor a ciertos mexicanofilos, más la idea de que Aztlán es Tijuana también. La idea se a manifestado en varias ocasiones y los que suelen expresar estas ideas de Aztlán o son crecidos en Tijuana de muy escuincles o son ya…
Read MoreXicanos as latinos
Whether Xicanismo likes it or not there is a latino force outhere to be reckoned with and it must embrace it. I say this because I have just been listening to Pepito for the past two days, an SF based band with ties to my birth city of Tijuana and a lad…
Read MoreWhen strange looks meet
Despite my seven long years in Sweden am still surprised to find myself smiling and waving at people I don’t know. This oft more than not causes me to loose my morning cheeriness and wipes my Xicano smile of my face and a small Homer Simpson rebuke,…
Read MoreIt rains in the plains of Sweden
Well I can officially kiss the suntan I adquiered during my sojourn in México adios. Its been raining cats and dogs in Sweden for 6 weeks in a row now and that means I will probably miss not only the summer the rest of the planet is probably indulging…
Read MoreWhen thoughts dawn upon one
Remember my post unscathed and alive whereby i related a blogsphere incident regards Tijuana identity? What i failed to take into account and just dawned upon me to tell my Xicana/o readership (is one allowed to use indiscriminately the suffix –ship…
Read Moresmall town sweden
boy, have i said enough about the weather here in sweden? jíjole, me thinkest i’ve becometh too gringo like, pero i can’t seem to stop complaining about the summer that wasn’t. here we are in the first days of july and the sun? muy bien and thou?…
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