Today’s poema by Gabriela N. Lemmons comes from the libro Primera Pagina : Poetry from the Latino Heartland published by the Latino Writers Collective.

Sin Calzon

I want to roam
the streets at night
pantiless
loose
when only the sidewalk
watches
stay up all night
read your diary
broadcast your secrets
on the 10 o’ clock news

memoir
of a serial bore
you kill me with your consonants
the way those r’s
roll off your tongue
like leather
in those shoes at the foot of your bed…

There’s more to the poem pero you really should buy the book.