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[New post] The Folkstory Death, As Told By Mexican Bob Dylan By Artemisio Romero y Carver
The Rising Phoenix Review posted: " The Folkstory Death, As Told By Mexican Bob Dylan [Verse 1] There's a town called Imagination Somewhere far left of New Orleans I spent time there as a teenagerI remember constant yellow mornings/In the press, I read the President, That boy prince " The Rising Phoenix Review
There's a town called Imagination Somewhere far left of New Orleans I spent time there as a teenager I remember constant yellow mornings / In the press, I read the President, That boy prince of Tennessee, Had found out there was a West And declared it our enemy / So they sent an expedition To the borders of Imagination They came with guns, heroin, and treaties And all the beauty of a nation / A little girl left her tennis shoes As everyone fled the march They had been protesting the war Which had invited one to start / Zachary Taylor and his boys Goths and vandals full of rage They held Lopez on hot asphalt And fried him like an egg / As they stormed the capital The Spaniards raised a cross They said something about redemption And lopped a head straight off / He stood that man sideways And murdered him on an order Then stole a painting and sword And fled back across the border
The newspapers, the union men Watched from across the street As the barrios took the courthouse Guns interrupted the speech
[Verse 2]
Holding a dying Kennedy, They had finally called her bluff She said I can feel it in my bones, Now, the ante has been upped / I was in Napa California When I finally heard the news I was drinking La Croix like water, While they sieged Vera Cruz / I came back too late you know To see anything but the smoke Just Henry Crabbs' head pickled And recently emptied rope / We left to hide in Chimayo She held me in her arms A bloody sacrilegious thing Her little pagan charm / Now it's been a string of defeats Since they took Imagination Joan of Arc does shows in Texas The Cubans are anti-immigration / Orosco's off in New York He writes me but I don't read it We tell all these different stories As if we'd actually seen it / I hear fire in the distance With all the beauty of a nation I'm tryin to get back out to That town called Imagination
By Artemisio Romero y Carver
Biography
Artemisio Romero y Carver is a Chicana poet and activist. She is a YoungArts Merit Award Winner for Spoken Word and Santa Fe's 2020 Youth Poet Laureate. Poems by Artemisio have appeared in publications that include Inlandia Literary Journal, Rigorous Literary Journal, Pasatiempo Magazine, and Magma Poetry. Her writing has appeared in the following anthologies: Dreams of Montezuma (Stalking Horse Press), Everything Feels Recent When Your Far Away (Axle Contemporary Press), and A Tiny Grain of Sand: The National Youth Poet Laureate Anthology 2021. She is currently pursuing degrees in sociology and studio arts at Washington University in Saint Louis. She also goes by Arte.
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