A LA CHINGADA, TRUMP,
her t-shirt read, red ink, after
the witness-vigil at the airport
in our town, ankle-shackled,
cuffed immigrant stop-off
transfer point, contracted
with the city to and from
Tacoma Detention Center
along with deportation,
Get fucked, Trump,
my guess at the urban slang
Do you know about that word,
I ask, is she middle-age, elder,
tears streaming silver-hair beauty
elegant wiping her eyes
Most beautiful taboo
sacred dreamword, chingar,
border crossing gestalt
in Mexican Spanish
richest ancestry darkest soil
don't believe what's said
on street as you believe it
breathing it in, not the little
chingones in your coffee
wombworld gravitating
all your love come down
to this, blossoming
through betrayal, abrecaminos,
way-making through
translation of the wordbody
world transformed
nothing from you taboo
Jim Bodeen
31 August 2019
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