tagging clovis

by Mia Barraza Martínez
Poetry

we tagged clovis
now clovis is it.

mauro showed us how to turn our jackets inside out.
how to roll a can, not shake it, if you don’t want to be heard.
we did drive-by’s
pulling up at stop signs.
stop war.
stop hate.
stop stupid.
watched for cars, open windows, clovis pigs.
but it was mauro who put in real work.
solo bombing the budweiser billboard.
he got blisters but didn’t break anything.
we burned in our shoulders and toes for some kind of justice.
creating and destroying. smelling like fumes in dulce’s van.
we swung words like dope and hella and fuck yeah.
too old for this. too old for words sprayed in red. permanent read.
words that mean what they say like we mean what we say.
like FREEDOM

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