Chicano Poet

Friday, October 27, 2023

Elegy For Jim Carroll

It's too late to date

Sharon Tate

But it's Halloween

And the scene can't be unseen


It's too late to date

Norma Jean but wait

It's Halloween

And her blonde hair has turned green


It's too late to date

Farrah Fawcett but wait

It's Halloween

And her poster's no angel it seems


It's too late to date

Mama Cass but wait

It's Halloween

And her ass is way too lean


It's to late to date

Shirley Temple but wait

It's Halloween

And her bones are skeleteen


It's too late to date

Selena hey but wait

It's Halloween

Nothing left of the Tejano Queen 


It's too late to date

Taylor Swift but wait

It's Halloween

Her cherry was lost on a trampoline


It's too late to date

Frankenstein's bride but wait

It's Halloween

And her thighs don't match I scream 


It's too late to date

My first girl but wait

It's Halloween

Her and her candy corn teeth I mean

Friday, September 22, 2023

 Naranjas


Naranjas grandes en el Rio Bravo

Naranjas del valle


Naranjas del pinche gringo

Que chinge su madre


Y su silla de ruedas

Naranjas grandes en el Rio Bravo





Monday, August 28, 2023

 Star Struck


I reached for a star

and all I got

was this scar

Friday, July 21, 2023

Token


She said, “ I feel brand new.”

After she left me


Took all my cash

Gave me a rash


She said she felt like a new car

She didn’t look new from afar


Took my leather jacket

That was her racket


Took her mouth for granted

I sure didn’t plan it


Sure had our fights

Sure had our nights


The world ain’t perfect you know

Describe the fight blow by blow


Life is just a token 

Of what can be broken



Sunday, July 16, 2023

 Adios Latinos

 

               latinos intolerant

 

Finally got enough of them latinos

finally got enough of them

 

bring on the cucuy, Chuy

time to deploy the scary one, uy

 

the cucuy ain’t no toy

oh boy oh boy

 

had enough of them latinos

always been their dark destinos

 

bring on the cucuy forget young Dino

they asked for their own desruino

 

finally had enough of them latinos

bring on the chingasinos

 

lower the boom

they’re all in one room---

 

when I woke up from the dream,

I had eaten a gallon of ice cream.

 

Friday, July 14, 2023

 Hotel Zarzamora

 

On a dark and dreary street,

moonlight burning my balding head,

the smell of warm conchitas

dissipating in the air like lead.

 

There she stood on the dirty street

a mission bell curses my arrival

running as fast on my feet

I wish I’d read the Bible

 

Welcome to the Hotel Zarzamora

check in right here please.

Take him to his room Pandora.

“Sir, I will take your valise.”

 

They put me in a room with no windows.

Someone swore there was no outside.

A fish bowl clung to dead minnows,

holy water clawed the insides.

 

I tried to check out in the morning.

She told me this almost out of breath,

“The thing about life

is that it’s followed by death.”

Saturday, July 01, 2023

Uncle Tom

 

The rich man

bought himself an Uncle Tom

 

he’s sitting on a bench

in a darkened robe

 

Uncle Tom has got a lady

as white as snow

 

she’s full of the green stuff

getting it wasn’t even tuff

 

Uncle Tom is at the beck and call

but he doesn’t hear you all

 

he’s a kept boy

a rich man’s toy

 

he’s sitting on the bench

erasing all his past

 

the rest of us are speechless

we have no voice

 

you gotta buy yourself an Uncle Tom

and sit him on the bench

 

and if you can’t convince him

then convince his wench