VivirLatino

For our first non-female identified poet of the month I bring you Tomás Riley, one of the original Taco Shop Poets, and a fragment from his work the movement: freestyle for the dying sun.

movement
march
panzon to guitarron
and liquified p-funk
maintain
norteños mas allá
vicente fernandez
chilling in his b-boy stance
talking trash about
“que de raro tiene”
no
es mas raro que tenemos
tony lamas
timbos
tripping
ain’t no half stepping
in the movement

mariaci muse(sic) riffs
against the twilight
of an olmec head nod
hands fly
flecha fast
to dominate the plate
rotating the dark
obsidian
outcast on the remix
overrun by selva sagrada
con su machete
en la mano
mascarada

“nosotros,
hombres y mujeres
íntegros y libres,
estamos conscientes
de que la guerra que declaramos
es una medida última
pero justa”

If you want to read the rest check out the book Primera Página.