Alberto Rios remembers the day J. F. Kennedy was shot and the two Nogales changed forever—Ed There was a time when the border between Nogales, Arizona, and Nogales, Sonora, was actually a fence, something that might be between backyards. To either side of the two Nogales’ flimsy barrier were miles of land, open, unencumbered, looking …
A good-guy gun blows bloody holes in a naughty toy’s face another kid hooked on “justifiable retaliation” learning to talk like addicted adults loading their veins with righteous rage to shoot up siblings avenging the past and bleeding graffiti on nursery walls
OCCUPIED TUCSON CITIZEN CATDANCING Executing a Nijinsky-like leap our tom Captain Jack today clears the laundry basket rim makes his imperious way out the room I am no more than envious onlooker feet forever rooted in this narrow earth THE FALLING LIGHT This morning seeing our neighborhood tom eating (we call him …
OCCUPIED TUCSON CITIZEN Dose me with your fallout from the Trinity Bomb. Dose me with your 2,000 nuclear test blasts in the Northern Hemisphere that still linger on. Dose me on land and out in sea from the barrels of nuclear wastes leaking into our water ways. Dose me with your uranium tailings blowing in …
