Sunday, January 21, 2007

Poem: Thinking in Espanglish

Reventando my words...
Pa que tu oigas in my idioma

Raising my bandera alto
Porque compai, this is no broma

I speak breathe and bleed boricua
And I stand tall despite mi altura

Mis ojos tu lo vez blue
pero gringo no soy
Mi soul es taino y pa' mi isla voy

I have viajado from brooklyn all the way to bayamon
Slammin mis palabras to hip hop or to a sweet isla son.

Y cuando I am done...quiero oir the dulce song of my coqui...
Porque pase lo que pase...
Yo vivo and I will die aqui!

As I am,

George Torres
The Urban Jibaro
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