All Ironies Intended . . .

All ironies intended . . . a poem for those whose existence is resistance  A refined rage reflexpeppered with inappropriate humormarinated in a truth beyond memujeres on the microphonerecycling colonized idealsinternalized fundamentalist trinketsrepeating formulas of censorship:

dic’que “calladita te ves mas bonita”amplifying senseless noiseclaiming to give voiceblurring out the true expenseour nonmarketable traitsdiscarded as nonsense

tucked into appropriated rebozosobligating silence toward protectionof our brown brothers

Loyalist essentialistfor the nonviolent causeRomanticized movementIlluminating whitewashed liberationExamining socializations tooidentify complicitnesseasy institutions blamed

Never once stopping to seethat buildings without peopleare empty boxes filled with thingssegun misunderstandings of my culturavictimize machista brothersfor they know not what they dosisters keepersof the firesahumadorasoffering blessingsshielding, sweeping, clearing, absorbingthat the education of our peoplewe must shoulderbecause we arethe givers of lifewith sacred wombsfor the offeringnurturing breastsfor the taking

of a borderline peoplethriving in the greyboundaries demarcatedfor safe keepingenter oppressors with facets of mewalls manipulated into meaningless superfluousness

see, we’ve been here beforewith exception

mujeres before us

resisting burialhaving screamedbaring testamentbleeding storiesin the permanence of ink

retrofitting memories ofthis master’s house neverintended to be homeuninvited reverse in-filtrationintentionally provokingrhetoric and jargon chokingthe life out of the livingteaching masters of oppressionfacades of success at our expenseso mija remember this:

“hocicona eres más chingona”speak truth to power and resistrevolution is you

--in the fullness of your bliss.