Ruben Rangel


def bluesólogo

Spiderman viejito 
with a grey afro al estilo '70 con chispas de canas from the side looks 
like a map of Africa
batea el micrófono o batea las teclas 
perlas (still segregated after all these years)
"NY ain't no place to be down"
at the end of winter in America

pero aquí estamos en el vaivén nuyorquino 
democracy is no longer unemployed
but On Strike!
spent the 70s telling ’bout the 60s
def bluesólogo Gil-Scott Heron
checkered shirt blues musician

climbing through midnite window
pa' crear desorden amnesia a deshora 
y una llamada despertadora
"save the children, soon it'll be their turn
to try to change the world"

héroe mío: black box of all crashes
economic, political and cultural 
failures which could bring the President’s plane down.