How to Listen to Boleros
visit abuelo
steal his 78's
find a busted up
turntable
that plays
out of one speaker
carry it home
on a rainy day
hang your hammock
from two leafless trees
pour three fingers
of dark rum
into a clear glass
sip slowly
dressed in a wrinkled
linen guayabera
dance
one hand raised in the air
the other pressed to your chest
and cry
by Sami Miranda
© Sami Miranda 2005. All rights reserved.
I love this poem.
You can read more of Sami's poems here and here.
In the mid-90s I was a volunteer with Sami Miranda at DC Barrio Unidos, which was the Washington chapter of Barrios Unidos, the gang intervention organization.
You can read a couple of articles I wrote about Barrios Unidos here and here.
This is the kind of poem that gets me out to my writing room, organic passion coupled with broken speakers... I love it! Thanks...
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