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imagine me

Carmelo Barrera Cruz



you may know my name

you don’t know My face,

not yet.               

you may know my words,

you don’t know My face,

not yet.               

you may know my art,

you don’t know My face,

not yet.               

now, I’m going to paint

with my words.

imagine:               

a skinny, 5’6 chaparrito

despelucada with hair to the base of the neck

caramel colored skin,

like toasted caramel right before it burns               

I am una nepantlera

look past my deceiving woodbrown eyes               

look at my serpent tongue               

look at how I’m split in two, you’re staring at my fragmentations               

look past your rose-colored glasses               

I am a hybridization

of my ancestors               

of my cultures               

of my nationalities               

of my Shadow and I               

I am Human and inHuman

in the 3rd Space.