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Poet-Tree Wil­low

Paint­ings by Julio Godoy

ME DE WAS ROUN OLD BANK can­cha, relax­ing de evening nice, play one bas­ket, take dog lotion and tam­rine far heat-up me bel­ly. “…I love you like a fat kid love cake” sound music from hyn­dai taxi mp3 wat pass sluo de turn. Plen­ty song, dif­fer­ent you know, play in de bar­rio all de peo­ple dem swear dem can hear dem ting trangkilo.

Yes­ter­day I de see one nice liki ting like this hour, young nurse… Queen in Hor­a­tio in 2000; she look sweet in Cos­ta Vision, dem a car­ry de gal dem by Wal­patara and film dem giv­ing dem sexy style. My secan, Dar­by burn de ting in one DVD far me.

I de wan car­ry this gial one place I de got by Pointeen under one bicha tree like pic-nic, grind pic-nic. One time in 4 Brod­da we dance right like wee­da juke… she move soft with she ripe papaya.

I got news for you, I got news for you
That I am over you, I’m not in love with you
Been trough de fire, trough da rain but I lived
To love again.

Dark like night sky, tight gen­er­ous bun­ka and stiff bob­bie, bicha lip an prit­ty hon­ey eye. When we de in Colon one foc­ka what was me friend have trai­do whit she brod­da and he kill me poor cuña­do. I de have col­or for go wit dem crew. Buay, in Blue­fields peo­ple talk you get one fame you neva lose it. Dem a know Peter rude. Him is gangs­ta, deal wit Baby­lon an him mama feel shame.

She was liki gial when it hap­pen, liku Deb­bie Hodg­son in de pri­ma­ry. One day she juicy woman. And I go far ship out. I return Decem­ber and see she wit one young buay one Chi­nese-Black, she have sexy short leop­ard skirt an tiny black top, what drape on she breezy nip­ple. Plen­ty peo­ple pass an top you far brief secan, I still de look you from de bar and shad­ow, gone.

That same time for New Year I pass by she mama church an de roqui­ta rec­og­nize me, and find de dev­il in me eye. I de feel curse from when I was fool­ish. Deb­bie no got dis­crim­i­na­tion, she feel me sor­row for she brod­da Earl, even if I neva get for know him. I love she and we life have tragedy.

We have we ting hide, like we doing bad ting. She get for meet me chil­dren dem call her aun­tie, dem no sell dem papa. In de begin­ning I de have next meat but I get for no want next woman. Key­la, me son Kent mama, tell me Deb­bie give me panty wata.

When I de out in the sea, I hear plen­ty sto­ry like de one dem tell in Blue­fields, Hat­ian man, Jamaican, Domini­can all dem have dem somet­ing. One man give me one liki black rock what I rub on me cock an it stay stiff plen­ty hour. I hear one uol man in Cot­ton Tree have two-week erec­tion and dem have to car­ry him Managua.

One hat­ian man, Jean, was de tough man in voo-doo. Him say when him is in de jun­gle him con­vert to tiger or mon­key. One time we was in we bunk him axe me for me one true love, name. Him write Deb­bie on one paper and burn it, grab de ash and spread on me hand, I whipe de dust and read “Deb­bie” on me palm.

Jean den de say: “Chen gen kat pat, se yon sèl chemen li fè”. And pass me vio­let mak­wa string for me jour­ney. I go In the jun­gle I find de tree what is part and hol­low far lure one mak­wa. With drum­beat I de dance for de spir­it an make dem car­ry the bird here from heav­en rain­bow. I done do it baby, we going heal and cre­ate new life, an you fam­i­ly going get far under­stan, I de get de get we soul bless­ing, we irie.

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Author and dig­i­tal medi­as­cape artist. CON­TACT FOR WORKS AND COM­MIS­SIONS. Pub­lished poet­ry col­lec­tions include: Con­fla­gración Caribe (Poet­ry, 2007), the  lim­it­ed edi­tion Nicaraguan mem­oir Poet­as Pequeños Dios­es (2006)Novísi­mos: Poet­as Nicaragüens­es del Ter­cer Mile­nio (2006) and 4M3R1C4 Novísi­ma Poesía Lati­noamer­i­cana (2010). And for the time being, The Hyacinth: An On-going Nat Sec Sto­ry (lit­er­ary fic­tion), is in the process of being writ­ten, the work touch­es on a vari­ety of themes that include glob­al traf­fick­ing, sur­veil­lance cap­i­tal­ism, hys­ter­i­cal deprav­i­ty, mind con­trol, crim­i­nal tyran­ny, eco­nom­ic coer­cion, racist astro­turf­ing, whack­tivism, online dis­rup­tion, gag war­fare, proxy ter­ror­ism, deep­fake attacks, 21st Cen­tu­ry slav­ery, Et al.

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