ReVersereVeR: Poetry is Free

for Burciaga who Cracked the Pin~ata

I’m no Different when I spin.  This is Me.

And now I’d like to try Another Rip.

Take the Word Reverse and Draw it Backwards.

Zing!!  It has a ring and it's Bilingual.

>Reverse Sever ReverseveR Reverse<

The line is Rotating Backwards and Pulling

a Meaning it Pushes as it Loops Thru.

That’s Centrifugal Force--It Lives in You!

Combine the Spinning Words--Up,there you Go,

Up on the Curb.  Weeeee Poetry! The Rap

of our Humanity isn't Private

Property! So come Gentle Gente, Free

or Undocumented, Young and All, Miss-

Labled Tambien.  We are the Poetry

Peeps, Sheeps, and Keepers.  You might Say

we are Pastoral Singers. That’s good Too.

WheehW are Equipped with Technical GLee

by Internal Reversal. Go Use IT!

Chicana/o Poet's Tree: Free the Dream Act So Our Young Trees Can Grow

You keep your money; I work for my meals,
but let our arts and languages go free.
Don't ban our Studies by Cruel Decree.
We are self-sustaining. Chicana/o
Poetry grows from its own History
and asks you for nothing. It has Students,
Professors, critics and the Tweeters want
It too! A Trunk of Democracy.
Its leaves of Social Change are Flowering.
Ecology’s no question. We must
care for this Tree to keep strong the struggle
for our Liberty! Its Canopy will shade
You, Locos, Inutiles, Viejos, All!
Yes our Poetic Roots still hold us Tall.