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Natalie Diaz

When My Brother Was an Aztec

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  • Roberto Garzahas quoted3 years ago
    Maybe one day you will laugh at this—

    arguing with a meth head dressed

    like a Judas effigy about Jesus’s sandals.
  • Roberto Garzahas quoted3 years ago
    What’s a wild bird like you need with whiteman shoes
  • carmenavilahas quoted3 years ago
    they help us to see that it is dark
  • Roberto Garzahas quoted3 years ago
    The Last Mojave Indian Barbie
  • Roberto Garzahas quoted3 years ago
    Some Indians’ wisdom teeth never stop growing back in—

    we were made to bite back—

    until we learn to bite first
  • Roberto Garzahas quoted3 years ago
    like gum they swallowed in first grade.

    The grandmas return from misa, with full to the brim

    estómagos and overflowing souls, to empty homes
  • Roberto Garzahas quoted3 years ago
    like burritos—tight and fat como porros—to hold us
  • Roberto Garzahas quoted3 years ago
    Still cries telling how she peed the bed there How the white teacher wrapped her in her wet sheets & made her stand in the hall all day for the other Indian kids to see
  • irene. 🌤️has quoted3 years ago
    All this before we knew that some wounds can’t heal
  • irene. 🌤️has quoted3 years ago
    He doesn’t sit in chairs anymore and is always on his feet,

    hovering by the window, peeking out the door, Because,

    he explains, everyone is the enemy, even you, even me.
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