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if you would walk with me

down this wide street into

another world, the people who

know how to prowl in the darkness,

who speak outright in the daylight,

and take God with them, will greet

you with smiles bright like flames. you’ll

be surprised to know they have been

looking for you, since the night an

old Brown lady yelled in the storefront

church on the corner gloria a Dios change

is coming, soon. if you like, we can stop

in to see this old woman who knows how

to pull apart the gods people have carefully

made, she will listen to the stories you

care to conjure, and then she will tell you

to face the closed door her children have

pounded for years. if you walk with me

a little further, to the bodega where the old

men once soldiers sit, you will discover from

them the stains on our democracy were

made with blood and all kinds of colored

skin. you may be surprised, by the close

of this stroll beneath the fat moon, you

may end up talking with new depth

into our light and dreams.