Jonathan Andrew Perez

Missing Witness: (n. phrase) :the expectation by a jury of one's peers that your existence is your to keep, that you are a witness to salvageable testimony

Encore: who waited in the rain, roar upswing,
There, no material thing could exist
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Point of no return: (n.)the theory of no more second chances, loss of a motorific mythic savior

Ocotillo plants bloom once a year
post-apocalyptic
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Song of the Varied Thrush: (n.)an exultation when a promise for a future is not fully emancipated as an aesthetic

The lilacs burst the abundant white flow and merge in the incipient
Dusk nothing here is old, but discarded refuse, checks, condoms, pill bottles from Sanitation.
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Socialism: (n.)the moment when the masses represent the predator, and the prey come to honest survivalism of the fittest


Cuba Libre: what does community mean to you
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i.
Chaotic shifting skies, aliens or clouds,
Or, a comic book superhero.
Blows a few planes from the bank, like folded cuts of fragile origami
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Voter Literacy Tests: (n.)historical moment that bought wisdom for a price.

The past is coming buried but not fully overthrown.
The clatter is heard. We do not need your services in the warmth of brotherly wilderness.
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Families on the Rio Grande nestle in solitary ponds, tide low,
bob-huts against the wind.Search in mud, wet up to the

exposed fiddler crabs (pre-columbian before Spanish Conquistadores
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Giganticism (n.)-deep in the sea creatures develop to an abnormally large size.

The bottom of the ocean is full of unseen species
Kraken, Isopod, Giant Isopod at sublittoral below zero
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The State's offer after affected your immigration status on parole.
You just got work, feet up, & pretend cruelty killed your dreams,

but the intellect controls. Franz Fanon, resist, Baraka beard
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