FYI: Ode to the Habanero

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Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 1:52:48 PM
Subject: Fwd: Ode to the Habanero

 

[for the forthcoming planting season]

Ode to the Habanero

True XXX Story

 

always in season popular

where the Sun so hot

must be a commie plot

 1950's-1960's matured

lurking there in the left hand cut,

light out, my habanero pepper

baby-doll hatchling darling

 

lonesome in the 'fridge - an

electric neon the sandwich

traffic has not touched

night of the living dead,

a most dangerous plant

more powerful than kryptonite

 

in the beginning was the word

y la palabra was HABANERO...

 

en El Jardin de Habaneros, el eden

back yard Xikano garden of spices

on Bagley y West Grand Boulevard,

Eva Sanchez said to Adan Garcia

in her most sultry voice

 

"orale honey, fijate, check out

this bad ass hotpepper, it is

sooooooo rico y good for you tambien! "

the remainder es historia

barbed wire fencing- cold

rio bravo waterway showers

 

later that evening,

into the wee wee hours

de la manana, adan

called eva his sweet

red hot pepper woman

 

hefe habanero

un dios among men

no es colored plain red or green

by god Herself si no pintado

glowing bright beelzebub red-orange

plutonium pulsation hypno-salivation

salvation chicken burro spicy

como el amor I fell for the lure

the fire set me free ...

 

oh beef y frijol tacito !

 

oh shameless

glut-o-nious stuffing

of one's own jowls !

 

I aged 4 years initiated into personhood-

tia habanera mi madrina y cool dos exxes

bironga mi padrino ...

 

laters 

                                          c. aztatl, 2004