Chicana
Back when I used to be ghetto
South Side adopted the unwanted
café. Unsought browns from segregated tribes
brewing every tres leches cake & green lake
that has ever sobrevivido. Back of the Yards fucked Gage Park
conceiving nacimientos. Blacks, browns & golds sundry lineas
de ropa while whites and pinks linger on streets where they shouldn’t
be. Sra. Aburguesamiento, this is the first time I am introduced
to Ms. Gentrification. She performs reading teacher but reveals
racista. I am subjected to high-risk, poverty-stricken, ghetto ass
South Side. I did not know white anglo-saxon protestant mindset
todavia. WASPs stripped the bees of their homemade honey
like every dispossessed ancestor of mine & I am perceived
brown girl. ¡Chinga tu madre! ¡Hijos de la chingada!
Uncanny cries support deafening goodbyes as I was left
abandonada. No longer la chiquita cafecita as I confessed
“fuck you” to the amiss, colonialist, ignorant-stricken ass
& manifest Chicana.