Table of Contents
I 1
(Citizen) (Illegal) 3
My Parents Fold Like Luggage 4
Mexican Heaven 5
River Oaks Mall 6
My Therapist Says Make Friends with Your Monsters 7
Boy & The Belt 9
The Voice in My Head Speaks English Now 10
Rumors 11
II 13
Mexican Heaven 14
Ode to Cheese Fries 15
I Wake in a Field of Wolves with the Moon 17
Note: Rose that Grows from Concrete 18
Ode to Cal City Basement Parties 19
Not-Love is a Season 20
Mexican Heaven 22
On My Mom's 50th Birthday 23
Hecky Naw 24
Ode to Scottie Pippen 26
III 27
Mexican Heaven 28
The Day My Little Brother Gets Accepted into Grad School 29
I Tried to Be a Good Mexican Son 30
I Walk into Every Room & Yell Where the Mexicans At 31
Mexican American Obituary 32
White Folks Is Crazy 33
Mexican Heaven 35
I Ask Jesus How I Got So White 36
Poem in Which I Become Wolverine 37
When the Bill Collector Calls & I Do Not Have the Heart to Answer 39
Mexican American Disambiguation 41
IV 43
Mexican Heaven 44
You Get Fat When You're in Love 45
Interview 46
My Family Never Finished Migrating We Just Stopped 48
If Anything Is Missing, Then it's Nothing Big Enough to Remember 49
Sleep Apnea 50
Mexican Heaven 51
Note: Vaporub 52
Summer Love 53
V 55
Mexican Heaven 56
Poem to Take the Belt Out of My Dad's Hands 57
My Mom Texts Me for the Millionth Time 58
I Loved the World So I Married it 59
Love Poem Feat Kanye West 60
Getting Ready to Say I Love you to My Dad, it Rains 61
River Oaks Mall (Reprise) 63
Gentefication 64
Guapo 66
Acknowledgments 67