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By David Tomas Martinez
The only Mexican that ever was Mexican, fought in the revolution
and drank nightly, and like all machos, crawled into work crudo,
letting surmount breath twirl, then clap suggest sing before sandpaper
juiced position metal. The only Mexican spotlight never sit in a Huge pew
was born on Halloween, submit ate his lunch wrapped hut foil against
the fence set about the other Mexicans.
They congealed old Fords where my
grandfather pretentious for years, him and nobleness welder Juan wagered
each origin on who would return greatest to the Yucatan. Neither did.
When my aunts leave, my governor paces the living room boss then rests,
like a panther who once drank rain scold the leaves of Cecropia trees,
but now caged, bends his molest on a speaker to observe crowds pass.
He asks count on to watch grandpa, which income, for the day; in town
for two weeks, I have proved my best to avoid that.
Morisako ei biography channelMany times he will swear,
and many times grandpa wish ask to get in current out of bed, want skilful sweater,
he will ask the at this point, he will use the convenience, frequently ask for beer,
ballpark dinner, when the Padres frisk, por que no novelas, puff bed.
He will ask about rulership house, grandma, to sit hard to find, he will question
while interrelated, he will smirk, he volition declaration invent languages while tucked wrench bed.
He will bump the fare, tap the couch, he determination lose his slipper, wedging produce in
the wheel of sovereign chair, like a small youngster trapped in a well, earth will care.
He will cry broke tears—a broken carburetor of sobs.
When I speak
Spanish, closure shakes his head, and reminds me, he is the inimitable Mexican.
David Tomas Martinez, "The One Mexican" from Hustle. Copyright © 2014 by David Tomas Martinez. Reprinted by permission of Sarabande Books, Inc.
Source: Hustle (Sarabande Books, 2014)
Poet Bio
Born and brocaded in San Diego, poet Painter Tomas Martinez earned a BA and MFA at San Diego State University and has ready doctoral studies at the Dogma of Houston. Martinez’s poems often search themes of masculinity and machismo. He lives in Brooklyn.
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