{"id":31650,"date":"2016-09-23T18:22:58","date_gmt":"2016-09-24T01:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eltecolote.org\/content\/?p=31650"},"modified":"2016-10-10T12:24:18","modified_gmt":"2016-10-10T19:24:18","slug":"gentromancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eltecolote.org\/content\/en\/gentromancer\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a1GENTROMANCER!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><b><i><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Drawing_speech_masthead.jpg?quality=89&#038;ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-31651\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Drawing_speech_masthead.jpg?resize=4574%2C1291&#038;quality=89&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"drawing_speech_masthead\" width=\"4574\" height=\"1291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Drawing_speech_masthead.jpg?w=4574&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 4574w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Drawing_speech_masthead.jpg?resize=600%2C169&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Drawing_speech_masthead.jpg?resize=360%2C102&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 360w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Drawing_speech_masthead.jpg?resize=768%2C217&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Drawing_speech_masthead.jpg?w=2000&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 2000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Drawing_speech_masthead.jpg?w=3000&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 3000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a>Gentrification, and its effects are hard <\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><b><i>to articulate \u2013\u2013 for many reasons. <\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><b><i>It\u2019s challenging to see a place you love change, to witness pieces of it being abruptly removed day by day. The experiences of erasure, displacement and homelessness are complex. If gentrification were personified, it would be a monster. Towering. Mutilating.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><b><i>Poets are in<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>a<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>unique position to speak and confront this monster, as the versatility of their craft contains the symbolic qualities of the smooth stone launched into the air, reminding Goliath of his vulnerability.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><b><i> It is with gratitude to Acci\u00f3n Latina, <\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><b><i>El Tecolote, and to the brilliant poets who answered the call, that I present this \u201c\u00a1Gentromancer!\u201d Broadside.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">-Josu\u00e9 Rojas \u2013\u2013 <b><i>Artist<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>***<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/drawing_niner_mission3_WEB.jpg?quality=89&#038;ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-31656\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/drawing_niner_mission3_WEB.jpg?resize=700%2C210&#038;quality=89&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"drawing_niner_mission3_web\" width=\"700\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/drawing_niner_mission3_WEB.jpg?w=700&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 700w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/drawing_niner_mission3_WEB.jpg?resize=600%2C180&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/drawing_niner_mission3_WEB.jpg?resize=360%2C108&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Nicole Henares (Aurelia Lorca)<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>\u201c22nd And Mission\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">A halo of mist hovers over the skyline,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">a gentle blessing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">I cannot hear the wind<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">but the statue of an owl stands alert,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">its head turning circles to keep away the pigeons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">On the corner is a hollow square,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">the ghost of an old building<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">that has burned down.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>No longer any trace, just a gaping death hole<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">next to the smug and unscarred walls<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">of new condominiums.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">***<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/drawing_volcano_popcorn9_WEB.jpg?quality=89&#038;ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-31658\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/drawing_volcano_popcorn9_WEB.jpg?resize=700%2C275&#038;quality=89&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"drawing_volcano_popcorn9_web\" width=\"700\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/drawing_volcano_popcorn9_WEB.jpg?w=700&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 700w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/drawing_volcano_popcorn9_WEB.jpg?resize=600%2C236&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/drawing_volcano_popcorn9_WEB.jpg?resize=360%2C141&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Mary Mendoza<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>\u201cThe Righting on La Wall 1.2\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><b><i>(Excerpt)<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">I awaken to the cries<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">of the mourning dove.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Coo-AHH-roo coo coo<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">I draw my bedroom curtain open<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">hoping to see the sky,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">to feel the sun,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">to dance with the trees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Looking upwards,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">my view &amp; mind remain clouded<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">by fog. Pa\u2019 abajo, the mirage<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">of a mural appears.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">The vibrant colors<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">begin to dance<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">the dead back to life,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Day by day, spray by spray.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Drama unfolds, righting the wrongs, with images of<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">the past, those \u00a1Presente! y el futuro.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">***<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Alejandro Murguia<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>\u201cSilicon City\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">They evicted Mia<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">from her storefront on Valencia<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Then they burned down<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">the apartments on 22nd Street<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">The good die young and isn\u2019t it a pity<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">But the beat goes on in Silicon City<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">You\u2019re a stranger now in your home town<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">With strange faces on once familiar streets<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">And strange shadows at four o\u2019clock<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">And cops strangers on a strange beat<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">The days and nights are mostly gritty<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">But hey, it\u2019s ok, you\u2019re hanging in Silicon City<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">So I\u2019ve been told that<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">everything that rises must fall<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">And that the wicked shall be denied<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">But now a days you don\u2019t know<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">who to trust<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">And watch out you don\u2019t get run over by a google bus<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">It be\u2019s that way all down and dirty<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">In the heartless heart of Silicon City<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Now everybody knows<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">the center cannot hold<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">But prophecy is cheat<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">and politicians are slippery<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">So baby get your high-heeled sneakers and your black beret on<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Because tonight we face the music in Silicon City<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">***<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/drawing_broadside_veritccal5_WEB.jpg?quality=89&#038;ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-31659\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/drawing_broadside_veritccal5_WEB.jpg?resize=226%2C480&#038;quality=89&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"drawing_broadside_veritccal5_web\" width=\"226\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/drawing_broadside_veritccal5_WEB.jpg?resize=226%2C480&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 226w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/drawing_broadside_veritccal5_WEB.jpg?resize=600%2C1276&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/drawing_broadside_veritccal5_WEB.jpg?resize=118%2C250&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 118w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/drawing_broadside_veritccal5_WEB.jpg?w=700&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: right;\">Lubna Morrar<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><b>I won\u2019t ever STOP Loving Part 3<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><b><i>(Excerpt)<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: right;\">Big earrings, Big hair, and eyeliner that extends to Ancestry. Goddess love. Queen. Reyna. Fuck the metro card, hop on from the back, and tag your name on the railing,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: right;\">cuz<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>why not?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: right;\">Moms texts to pick up some Pan,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: right;\">but she found a place to bomb.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: right;\">its hers tonight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: right;\">Church is on Sunday, but the can is both her bible and religion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: right;\">She misses her brothers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: right;\">We all miss all her brothers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: right;\">Swine pulls up as she is writing \u2018RIP ALEX\u2019. There was a brief exchange of violence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: right;\">And she had Bacon in the morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">***<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Stephen Williams<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>\u201cWhere are <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>we to live?\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">When you have bought up all the homes<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">When you have bought up all the businesses<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">When the water bill goes up<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">When the light bill goes up<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Where are we to live?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">When the family<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">has all moved away<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">When our friends<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">are scattered<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">When boyfriends and<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">girlfriends are no more<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">When parents<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>can\u2019t stay<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><i>Where are <\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><i><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>we to <\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><i><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>live?<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0***<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Melissa Lozano<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><b><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>\u201cHorizon\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>If you stay longer<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">work until your knuckles bleed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Roots, dreaming<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">of when.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">The skyline shows me\u2013<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">upside down,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>papalote<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Fire, ash,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">goodbye.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Paint me<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">a picture<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Of resilience dancing,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">show us<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">waking up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>*** \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Anthony Cody<\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>Displaced <i>fragments<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Heavy<\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\" style=\"text-align: center;\">how you do not<\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\" style=\"text-align: center;\">use the word<\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><i>home.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><i> <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0*** \u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><i> <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Stephanie Pay\u00e9s<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>\u201cNow You\u2019re Just Somebody<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><b> That I Used To Know\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">I loved exploring every<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">corner of you,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">marveling at your beauty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">It moved me to know you were all mine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">You were a beauty for whom<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">my love I proclaimed to any audience<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>that would listen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>Others have seen you<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">and now want to make you theirs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">They\u2019ve romanced you<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">and you\u2019ve become what<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">they want you to be.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">They\u2019ve taken you<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">away from me,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">not allowing our love an appropriate end. My heart smiles<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">at memories of our love.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">I grew up with you and<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">wouldn\u2019t be who I am<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">had it not been for you.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">But my heart breaks when I realize that<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">now you\u2019re just somebody that I used to know.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">***<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Vianney Casas<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>\u2018El Fuego M\u00e1gico Gabriel Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez Never Wrote About.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><b><i>(Excerpt)<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">En Guanajuato, las casitas son de colores<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">rojo, amarillo, orange.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">En Guanajuato, Chavela canta,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">en San Francisco Chavela llora.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">En San Francisco, las casitas queman, rojo, amarillo, orange.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">***<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Leticia Hernandez<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>\u201cHow to Evict a Family<\/b>\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">The building owner pins his title<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cland-lord\u201d as a badge.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Declares he<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">has rights, too. His entitlement, to park<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">his antique car collection on your face, use your hair to dust the mirrors, let loose<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">his foaming hound of a mouth within ear shot and in plain sight of your six-year-old<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">but not his adult son.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">The land-lord gets to open doors<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">and piss in the unoccupied apartment<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">bathroom, under renovation, despite<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">unfortunate echos, because two or three<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">golden toilets in the Victorian, can\u2019t hold his incontinent need for more vats<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">to place all of his deposits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">***<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Sandra<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Garcia Rivera<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>\u201cLa Teker\u00eda\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Bodies line the<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">inside perimeter of<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">La Taqueria,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">coil around and spill onto<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Mission towards 25th.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">We approach<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">holding hands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">SF Giants boast boldly<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">from his chest, he scowls under his breath, then outloud,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cWTF! Can\u2019t even get a burrito<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">in my own fucking neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Fucking techies. Fucking buses\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">burn his throat like acid reflux.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">I tug on his arm, coax him towards<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">the train. \u201cC\u2019mon baby,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">let\u2019s go hit up the taco truck by the lake, or pupusas at Platanos,no wait.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">His shoulders slump under his hoodie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">It\u2019s an odd year in the Bay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">***<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Paul S. Flores<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>\u201cFOR ALEX NIETO\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Are we gonna bundle up in plastic garbage bags and hoodies,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">put up tents with the<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">homeless of San Francisco,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">camp out in front of every<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">gentro fuck techie coffee shop,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">restaurant, food truck lot, start up,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">yuppie loft, police station<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">and interrupt this<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">white privilege oblivion<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">till we provoke the chaos<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">we are living in to spill<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">into the cash registers and siphon out<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">the legacy of our<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">grandparents who built this city<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">till they all come chasing us<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">in the streets while we march<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">for Alex Nieto?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">***<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Paul S. Flores<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>\u201cWE STILL BE\u201d <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">My homie\u2019s house burned down<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">and we read poetry in the ashes<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">We raised some cash and his spirits<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">With bottles of tequila and coronas<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Salted tears to quench harsh throats<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">We told jokes and Marcus played hard be-bop<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">My homie wailed for his dog<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">lost in the smoke of a broken<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">pilot light induced inferno<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Poetry heals, the be-bop revives<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Poetry heals and the be-bop revives<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">We never, we never, we never go softly<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">into that dark night<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">***<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Tongo Eisen-Martin<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>\u201cFish With Ambition<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><b> to Become the River\u201d <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">I looked in my bank account<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">It said, \u201cyou have five toilets to your name.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">It said, \u201cdon\u2019t just sit there. Return fire.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Talking head says, \u201cgo to sleep children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">You will all be police tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">We say: No. We will be the poor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Talking head says, \u201cok scumbags,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">I talked to you like children; now you will be dogs\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">***<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Norman Zelaya<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>\u201cAbout the bus station at 7th Street\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">A scruffy man in corduroy coat<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>And oversized beanie<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">His tattered cuffs quivered as he laughed<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">At the small TV set attached to<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">the arm of the chair<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">He laughed, cracked up<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Even after his time was up<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">And he was out of quarters<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">The others rested<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Meandered<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Shuffled along the linoleum floor, hands out<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">It was like that until<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">The station was closed<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">The benches are still here<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">You can sit down and wait<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">As long as you like<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">That Greyhound bus<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>is not coming<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">No where is home<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Everywhere is<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">the end of the line<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>***<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Prishni Murillo<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>\u201cFORCED OUT.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>for a generation with a fleeting home.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">As we unite the world,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">we lose our homes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">As we build up villages,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">our structures collapse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">As we keep the fire of life ablaze,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">their fine print<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">and signatures create a hell<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">dressed as heaven.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">When it feels like each step we stake<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">is on quicksand, the earth shakes open<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">to catch our fall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">In our heartbreak and with broken backs,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">we hold on to the light.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Written off but alive with<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">survival encoded in our genes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Imprinted generations ago,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">alive in all our seeds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">The promise of life renewed each day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Our survival intergenerationally intact.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Affirmed by the fact that despite their laws,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">borders and titles,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">our people carry our homes on our back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Arturo Mart\u00ednez C\u00e1ceres<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>\u201cESCUPIENDO AL CIELO\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Alrededor del mundo, con tus botas en el lodo<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Mientras en el fuego del hogar,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">a t\u00ed mismo tu hijo est\u00e1s mirando<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Que las barras y las estrellas<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">valgan siempre la pena<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Y en cualquier parte del globo<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">se reconozca tu nombre<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Son los S\u00e1nchez y los Hern\u00e1ndez,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">los Moreno y los Gonz\u00e1les<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Los latinos a los que Trump desprecia<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Y que son en verdad fortaleza<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">En una naci\u00f3n de migrantes,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">m\u00fasicos, poetas, h\u00e9roes,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Constructores, jardineros y m\u00e1rtires soldados<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">***<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Camila Osorio<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>\u201cUntitled\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">I like organic horchata And Mexican street fruit w a light side of DEET I like my Factory 2 U come ups and supporting handmade homie wares.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">***<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">The following two poems come to us from<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>The Beat Within: <i>A publication of <\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><b><i>writing and art from inside juvenile hall.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">www.thebeatwithin.org<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Comas<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>\u201cAvalanche in the San Francisco Bay Area\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Gentrification has affected me badly. My family was forced to move out of state because of the gentrification in my neighborhood. We lived in the same place for 15 years and now since we couldn\u2019t pay what the higher class pays (for rent) we were forced to move.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Sadly, it is not just me, but a lot of my friends and their families were forced to move out of the city, out of the Bay Area too!<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Screw this gentrification!<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">I pray one day<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">everything will go back<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">to the way it was.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">The upper class need to<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">relax and stay in the hills.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">***<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Reggs<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>\u201cGentrification\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">This is very wrong.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">They are trying to push Blacks out of their homes,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">where they have lived for years, maybe generations. In order to make a better place for whites, they are trying to raise rents and change the neighborhood to things we don\u2019t like so we\u2019ll stay out. The neighborhood might not be the best, but when they force people out, those people lose connection to their memories, like where they first<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">learned to drive or where they lit a candle for a friend or family member who passed away. Greedy people don\u2019t understand the things people really lose when they\u2019re forced to leave their homes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gentrification, and its effects are hard to articulate \u2013\u2013 for many reasons. It\u2019s challenging to see a place you love change, to witness pieces of it being abruptly removed day by day. The experiences of erasure, displacement and homelessness are complex. If gentrification were personified, it would be a monster. Towering. Mutilating. 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