This is the way my father spelled Watsonville, making
the town of his oppression holy
Guadsunvil
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I understand the power of tongues
and torches
and tremors
and inundaciones.
I bought a strawberry_________I understand
economics
___________________________when I eat
ollalaberry jam for
and stained my new______________________________breakfast
silk Family Bargain Center blouse________and
the seeds attack me for dinner.
I understand_______________I understand
that these strawberry fields
that lettuce fields______________________________
are forever but,
appear straight and become__________________don't
make songs
crooked as they make monies___________or
are made into them.
I understand artichokes
when they refuse
to undress,
so we could
see
only their heart.
Since you are the Virgin's ugly brother,
I understand
that she comes to visit you on oaks
and through people
because she can't stand you
in person.