Love Revolution

Love Revolution presents a collection of poems by Robert Tinajero. Divided into five sections (three major and two smaller), Tinajeros verses explore a wide range of topics, situations, and emotions, particularly focusing on various types of love.

this is my apology poem
God
im sorry for having written so many poems
and so few praising you

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the love-armies assembled
but i did not enlist

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im tired of soft poems today
i want my words to
jump up and stab a racist cop
put on gloves
sweat and bruise and bleed
help a migrant pick a thorny crop

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so what kind of bullets are you putting in your gun
america?

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if i''m hanging around
the wrong ol'' town
i''m a spic
can i be american?

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i''m trying to put into words
the poetry that drips from your body

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may God bless me
with my own
nancy Reagan

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maybe everywhere
is in the middle of nowhere

maybe its all just physics

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what street
will be the last one
my casket rolls through

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pero la realidad es
el amor no es nicamente la belleza
los erticos fuegos en los cielos estrellados de Neruda

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qu saba yo
de la viscosidad del amor?