Viene mi enllave en clave

You are the top in my priority
in my priority you are the top
my priority in the top you are
in the top you are my priority
priority you are in my top
are you the top in my priority
top in my priority you are
top the priority you are in
are you the top in my priority?
my priority you are in the top
you the priority in my top are
in my top you are the priority
top top priority
top top priority
you are in
top priority
you are the top
priority you are in
top priority
priority top
top top priority
top my priority
top you are
top
priority
you are

* * * * * *

the fridge is a pool
water water
remnant of 5 bags of groceries       What's left?
but carrots and butter
everybody around me is eating pizza
today it smells better than ever
the pool is cold
the pool is full of ice
carrots do not taste good by themselves
carrots do not taste good in the menu of brokeland
I ate the pizza in my mind
it fell from his hand
I drank the soda in my mind
you guessed it. A major spill in the
oval counter.
mal de ojo. Mal de bolsillo. Mal de tripas. Mal. Mal.
food stamps fill a need food stamps are not for me
I am not qualified to be disqualified to quality food
but now out of need the buttered carrots taste good.

* * * * *

M15 up Gristedes Chemical Bank Wok n' Roll GAP
decorated the runaway lighting up up up 85th Street
a strange silence full of laughs and love awaited for me.
Me 10 minutes late. Me always late for love laughing not by
luck a strange silence. Full of laughs and love filled 34A
a 1 1/2 room with a great view I know them from
yesterdays
many yesterdays that I do not remember
as usual my damn habit of feeling and
not remembering. I do not remember them
I have them in my sun.
And I keep my habit, as usual I feel the
past and secure future also filled with
laughs and 1010 coincidences
we non-stop talking thanks to our experience
we not limited corpses thanks to our collective conscience
We mixed our gifts with a flaming light and sweet words
sunny hearts, vegetarian chili, incense, bread, sour cream
wild rice, lemonade, tea, water. Water untouched witness of
flowing energy sitting pretty
in a beautiful vase
water blessing with its stillness
our encuentro.

Looks like we get together everyday.
Looks like we know each other from days with no end.
We will see each other in 85th Street Tunisia France Delhi
Italy San Sebastián La Romana. We will I will not be surprised
I want to see their kids the three their fives. I will.

I will not be surprised. I will.
So much to share so much to absorb so much to learn so much so much
M15 down GAP Barami Studio KFC H&R Block The Cream Puff
so close
Better Home
and the faces of M15 as MTV moving in their aloofness
my writing dances
dances of my writing
my writing painted with colors mentioned
pepper paprika peach cinnamon salt

I looked at their eyes. They did not look back.
I accidentally touched them. They were insulted.
I smiled. They frown.
I smiled again. Inside this time. They do not know my friends
from many lives. They do not know.
They have a different habit. They remembered.
Down down China Fun
This is my stop.

Josefina Báez, actress, writer, and educator, was born in La Romana, Dominican Republic. Ms. Báez is the founder and director of Latinarte / ay ombe (1986), an art troupe that promotes the arts, artists and culture of latinas in general, Dominicans in particular. Her written work has been published in Vetas (Caribbean Magazine), Brújula/Compass (Latin American Writers Institute-NY), and Ventana...