By chris
Date: 2007 May 03
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Entreaty

Shout-out to the barrio poet of just six weeks' time,
born fully-formed like some street
santo,
like a fighter,
like Fidel
in the jungle,
like Che
on a motorcycle.

Tell it, hombre,
spell it out like the skywriter who rides the air and
goes high enough to get lost inside the clouds.
Be the diver who drinks the sea,
the morphine that borrows the pain,
the runner who will not stop,
who becomes the breathing and the beating
heart.