Where+I'm+From+Curasco

King and Story Collage
//Adel Curasco, Taco Shop Poets//

I come from a place where the sun bakes the air into dry heat where the black asphalt radiates its oil smell and warms bare feet

I come from a place where the rhythm is slow motion oppressively dense and openly fast

I come from a place where Miller Elementary School is across the street from Dave's Adult Bookstore, which is adjacent to Dick's Supermarket, where signs proclaiming the illegality of curising are spray painted red with the words Free Angela Davis

I come from a place where Andy, a confused white guy who owns a hydraulic shop, is preached to by Father mateo, another confused white guy, liberation theology in a church where liberation means buying beans

I come from a place of hot laughter, cool Newberry sepcials, Overfelt High School, suffocating sadness, smooth smiles, green/brown hills, bumpy roads, day labor and a place where Blanca rats her hair big and tall

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