I Wanted Everything. What Could

Catch Me, As If I Have Surely Been Out Committing A Violation Against You, My Sin Of Insisting On Existing Without You.

A Good Lover Will Do That, See Something Worthwhile In You That You Never Knew Was There. And When There's Something You Don't Like To See In Yourself A Good Lover Won't See It Either.

I'm Obviously An American Citizen. My Parents Are American Citizens. But I'm Not Looked At As An American.

Between The Sun And Poverty There Was Us For A Little While.

My Mamá Grande, A Tiny Mayan Woman, Took Me Aside When I Was An Adolescent And Told Me Several Things That Didn't Make A Bit Of Sense To My Young And Inattentive Ears, And As Young People Tend To Waste All Attempts Of Our Elders To Relay To Us Wisdom Accumulated Over The Decades, I Thought My Mamá Grande Had A Few Mice In The Attic.