Newness Saturday #1


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Just submitted some new poems to my creative writing teacher as part of my final manuscript for the summer.

This poem was the first one I wrote for class and was originally going to follow the same pattern as the parent poem “hymn to vatos who will never be in a poem” but it’s time to meld attribution with some more distinct flavah and see what we can get out of it.

Sonnet for my B-Boys
After Luis Alberto Urrea’s “hymn to vatos who will never be in a poem”

For my b-boys      Lil O, Ray, Jon Boy
For my b-boys      walk the straight line by day
For my b-boys      know all the street vendors
For my b-boys      crushed ice with sweet syrup
For my b-boys      fueled by sugar and sweat
For my b-boys      swear to always be boys
For my b-boys      Ozzy, Ray-Jay, Tiger
For my b-boys      up way past their bedtime
For my b-boys      stand guard in the hallways
For my b-boys      down by law soldiers
For my b-boys      keep it copasetic
For my b-boys      in coded speak like break beat
For my b-boys      Ozwaldo, Raymond, Jon
For my b-boys      peace out till the next time

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