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• Constraints

  8/2/2010 in Bilingual, Malinche

  I tend to adopt an attitude towards language that it’s nearly pristine in its stipulations since I exact a nativists view on language that cannot possibly meet the standards I want. That is, I want what it is said in L1 to be exactly the same as in L2. An impossibility by all means. Yet [...]

• killjoy

  6/26/2010 in Malinche, Poem

  Bad little voice bad little boys sing a llulaby that kisses me bye-bye Kill me softly with my own locally grown bad feelings murder my ego because it wants to feel me good Little hell constructed comments that eat me up away far far into the depths of low self steem, sing a song a [...]

• Above

  5/22/2010 in Poem

  Upon my eyesight catching an everyday nature scene A simple little bird perching on a new, perhaps a year old twig, sprouting early may leaves cause of its weight, twirled. Before it, the blue vault. & I wonder: when was the last time I layed on the grass to watch the clouds pass by? The [...]

• Quinto comment II

  5/22/2010 in Books, Malinche, Pocho sentimientos

  In relation to the Fifth Comment: Here in Sweden, Swedes can’t see beyond my ethnic look or what their eyes tell them I am. A brown person. So the idea of an American has also been hijacked by color lines. Although, much to my surprise Swedes don’t see themselves in those color lines though their [...]

• San Diego Reader

  4/24/2010 in Tijuana

  Well, my latest piece on Tj is up and running at the SDReader. Go check it out. Here’s the link for the English version Aquí está el vínculo al artículo en español.