grave debts unreconciled rough brown hands toiling mid-day promises left full of yearning sudden showers of silver rain "te amo mucho, mijito" the cherry tree that looked like God pick-up trucks and plywood beds the horror- show of fire- scorched sidewalks mud baths in the name of becoming clean a deal struck in the dead of night the long, long, looooong way around the lake where I was baptized all in white the brick wall that punched me back soft touch and serrated words top secret besos towering cacti, regal and terrifying the land of big love if you can wait a while neat piles of nervously gnawed off fingernails hands clasped in fervent prayer treasure under my nana's porch tongues never gifted me by my Mother burnt tortillas and untouched beans the deepest blue of Unseen seas "I don't think I ever, in fact, returned home" grave debts unreconciled rough brown hands toiling mid-day promises left full of yearning sudden showers of silver rain "te amo mucho, mijito" the cherry tree that looked like God pick-up trucks and plywood beds the horror- show of fire- scorched sidewalks mud baths in the name of becoming clean a deal struck in the dead of night the long, long, looooong way around the lake where I was baptized all in white the brick wall that punched me back soft touch and serrated words top secret besos towering cacti, regal and terrifying the land of big love if you can wait a while neat piles of nervously gnawed off fingernails hands clasped in fervent prayer treasure under my nana's porch tongues never gifted me by my Mother burnt tortillas and untouched beans the deepest blue of Unseen seas "I don't think I ever, in fact, returned home"
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grave debts unreconciled
rough brown hands toiling mid-day
promises left full of yearning
sudden showers of silver rain
"te amo mucho, mijito"
the cherry tree that looked like God
pick-up trucks and plywood beds
the horror-show of fire-scorched sidewalks
mud baths in the name of becoming clean
a deal struck in the dead of night
the long, long, looooong way around
the lake where I was baptized all in white
the brick wall that punched me back
soft touch and serrated words
top secret besos
towering cacti, regal and terrifying
the land of big love if you can wait a while
neat piles of nervously gnawed off fingernails
hands clasped in fervent prayer
treasure under my nana's porch
tongues never gifted me by my Mother
burnt tortillas and untouched beans
the deepest blue of Unseen seas
"I don't think I ever, in fact, returned home"
